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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mercenaries
    sub title: the history of a norm in international relations
  name:
    name part: Percy, Sarah
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 267 pages)
  abstract: With unprecedented historical range, this book examines the use of mercenaries - from the courts of medieval Europe through to private security companies in modern-day Iraq - as well as exploring the key ethical questions surrounding the mechanics of private military action.
  table of contents: Introduction; 1. Norms, Their Influence, and How They Can be Studied; 2. The Definition of a Mercenary and the Definition of the Proscriptive Norm; 3. The Origins of the Norm against Mercenary Use, 1100-1600; 4. Competing Explanations for the Nineteenth-Century Shift Away from Mercenary Use; 5. How Citizens Became the Standard: A Normative Explanation of the Shift Away from Mercenary Use; 6. The Norm against Mercenary Use and International Law; 7. New Model Mercenaries: PMCs, PSCs, and the Anti-Mercenary Norm; Conclusion.
  note: Sarah Percy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mercenary troops
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mercenary troops
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
  subject:
    topic: Mercenary troops
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: International relations
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Foreign enlistment
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: War
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mercenaires
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Mercenaires
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Relations internationales
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Enrôlement à l'étranger
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Guerre
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: Biological & Chemical Warfare
  subject:
    topic: Foreign enlistment
  subject:
    topic: International relations
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mercenary troops
  subject:
    topic: War
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Värvade regementen
    topic: etik och moral
  subject:
    topic: Värvade regementen
    topic: internationella aspekter
  subject:
    topic: Legosoldater
  subject:
    topic: Internationell säkerhet
  classification: UB321 .P37 2007eb
  classification: 355.3
  classification: 89.70
  classification: 89.82
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mercenaries
    name:
      name part: Percy, Sarah V. (Sarah Virginia), 1977-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
    identifier: (DLC) 2007013675
    identifier: (OCoLC)122701648
  identifier: 9780191526794
  identifier: 0191526797
  identifier: 9780191706608
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 080122
    record change date: 20260318172830.6
    record identifier: in00005702294
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng