Domesticating International Corporate Responsibility: Holding Private Military Firms Accountable Under the Alien Tort Claims ActDomesticating International Corporate Responsibility: Holding Private Military Firms Accountable Under the Alien Tort Claims Ac

Abstract

The spread of sporadic small-scale war will cause regular armed
forces themselves to change form, shrink in size, and wither away. As they
do, much of the day-to-day burden of defending society against the threat
of low-intensity conflict will be transferred to the booming security
business; and indeed the time may come when the organizations that
comprise that business will, like the condottieri of old, take over the state.

Executive Outcomes is the small wave of the future in terms of
defence and security, because the international community has abdicated
that role.