Outsourcing war and peace: preserving public values in a world of privatized foreign affairs
Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. Though little noticed by the public, the extent of this shift is breathtaking: contractors working for for-profit and nonprofit organizations as well as for governments are now delivering aid, negotiating peace settlements, and fighting wars. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm?