The responsibility of states
The responsibility of states
This chapter looks at the varied efforts to use the international law of state responsibility to hold states in which private military and security companies (PMSCs) are registered or incorporated (home states) accountable for their conduct. It examines whether, under international law, the home state is obliged to control its companies. Must such a state allow its courts to adjudicate claims filed against these companies? Home states can be held responsible for PMSC actions when the company is a mere fiction used to pursue state interest, if governmental authority has been delegated to it, or if it is in fact under state direction or control. Such ‘easy cases’ do not capture the growing instances of PMSCs being employed by private entities (rather than states), however.
Keywords: privatization, private military and security companies, PMSCs, responsibility, human rights, accountability
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