The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. ... The outsourcing of a number of basic functions which traditionally were carried out by national armies or police forces, known as the top-down privatization, has blurred the borderlines between the public services of the State and the private commercial sector. ... If at the international and regional level there are specific provisions regarding mercenarism and a definition of what is a mercenary, there is no defi...

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