Hostile Business and the Sovereign State: Privatized Governance, State Security and International Law

by Michael J. Strauss

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority. The threat arises from the massive worldwide shift of state activities to the private sector since the late 1970s in conjunction with two other modern trends - the globalization of business and the liberalization of international capital flows. The work introduces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367663236
• ISBN13: 9780367663230
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages