Outsourcing Sovereignty

2007-12-19 Political Science

Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Release : 2007-12-19
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Outsourcing Sovereignty written by Paul R. Verkuil. This book was released on 2007-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.

Outsourcing Empire

2022-05-24 History

Author : Andrew Phillips
Release : 2022-05-24
Genre : History
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Download or read book Outsourcing Empire written by Andrew Phillips. This book was released on 2022-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global order From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion, building the world’s first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism. In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers’ expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy. Bringing a fresh understanding to the ways cross-cultural relations were handled across the oceans, Outsourcing Empire examines the significance of company-states as key progenitors of the globalized world.

The Truth about Crime

2016-12-05 History

Author : Jean Comaroff
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Truth about Crime written by Jean Comaroff. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, in most places and for most people, to the risks posed by lawlessness to the conduct of everyday life. Ours in an epoch in which law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement are ever more critical registers in which societies construct, contest, and confront truths about themselves, an epoch in which criminology, broadly defined, has displaced sociology as the privileged means by which the social world knows itself. They also argue that as the result of a tectonic shift in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance, the meanings attached to crime and, with it, the nature of policing, have undergone significant change; also, that there has been a palpable muddying of the lines between legality and illegality, between corruption and conventional business; even between crime-and-policing, which exist, nowadays, in ever greater, hyphenated complicity. Thinking through Crime and Policing is, therefore, an excursion into the contemporary Order of Things; or, rather, into the metaphysic of disorder that saturates the late modern world, indeed, has become its leitmotif. It is also a meditation on sovereignty and citizenship, on civility, class, and race, on the law and its transgression, on the political economy of representation.

Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern

2011

Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Release : 2011
Genre :
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Download or read book Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern written by Paul R. Verkuil. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article, which will be a chapter in Government by Contract (Martha Minow and Jody Freeman eds., Harvard University Press 2008), addresses the proposition that some duties of government may not be transferred to private hands. It views the executive power as requiring public governance and connects Congress to this responsibility through the Appointments Clause. Officers of the United States are those officials directly charged with doing the public's business and any direct or indirect transfer of their responsibilities would run counter to the constitutional plan. Decisions at the margins, where government remains nominally in control, are less easy to categorize and issues of justiciability are always problematic. However, there remains a core of government responsibilities that must be protected from the increasingly robust privatization movement. This chapter is concerned with the transfer to private contractors of government power that might be considered inherent or significant under governing constitutional, statutory or regulatory norms (especially the Appointments Clause, the Subdelegation Act and OMB's A-76 process). Through a study of the Transportation Security Agency, it seeks to offer workable definitions of these limitations. This chapter connects to prior work by the author in Outsourcing Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press 2007).

Privatising Border Control

2022-11-22 Law

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Release : 2022-11-22
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Privatising Border Control written by . This book was released on 2022-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many breaches of immigration law have been criminalised. Foreign nationals are now routinely identified in court and in prison as subjects for deportation. Police at the border and within the territory refer foreign suspects to immigration authorities for expulsion. Within the immigration system, new institutions and practices rely on criminal justice logic and methods. In these examples, it is not the state that controls the national border: instead, it is often privately contracted companies. This collection of essays explores the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control and its implications for our understanding of state sovereignty and citizenship. Privatising Border Control is an important empirical and theoretical contribution to the growing, interdisciplinary body of scholarship on border control. It also contributes to the academic inquiry into the growing privatisation of policing and punishment. These domains, once regarded as central to the state's police power and its monopoly on violence, are increasingly outsourced to private providers. With contributions from scholars across a range of jurisdictions and disciplines, including Criminology, Law, and Political Science, Privatising Border Control provides a novel and comparative account of contemporary border control policy and practice. This is a must-read for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in immigration law and the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control.

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