1. Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
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. ... The concept of collective security enshrined in the UN Charter is based on the principle that each of its Members, as sovereign State, has the control of a given territory and the monopoly of the use of force and that the legal responsibility for the use of force, internally (by the police), or externally to defend its territory mil...
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