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. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, ... to exercise effective control over security providers and to ensure professionalism, transparency, and trustworthiness. It would also entail the formalization of training requirements for security gua...

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... the rapid increase in cross-border economic, social, technological exchange under conditions of capitalism. It attempts to characterize globalization, and its effects on poverty, the environment, gender, culture, and political structure and dynamics. David Held and Anthony McGrew write in their entry for Oxford Companion to Politics that globalisation can be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation ... order, such as the WTO, would leave them unequal to the task of adjudicating between nations. The fate of the League of Nations at the end of the 1930s...

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