Title: Mercenary intervention in Sierra Leone: Providing national security or international exploitation?
Abstract: This article critically examines the privatisation of security in the West African state of Sierra Leone. The focus on Sierra Leone brings to the fore the post-Cold War debate about the strategic impact of private military or mercenary companies in intra-state conflicts in Africa. It also raises the crucial issue of the link between low-intensity conflicts and strategic minerals and how neo-liberal globalisation forces have provided market opportunity for mercenary companies to fill the security vacuum created by collapsed states in Africa.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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