ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF PRIVATE ENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARMED CONFLICTS ON THE STATE’S MONOPOLY ON THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF PRIVATE ENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARMED CONFLICTS ON THE STATE’S MONOPOLY ON THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE

Summary/Abstract: The active participation of private military and security companies in contemporary armed conflicts has a strong impact on the state’s monopoly on the use of military force. Even if there is no possibility to develop and implement a generally valid formula for interaction between states and private actors in the process of ensuring national security and defense, the outsourcing of specific functions of law enforcement and the degree of involvement of private military and security companies substantially affects state sovereignty and is one of the biggest challenges to public international law in general and to the legal mechanisms governing these processes in particular. The mechanisms, procedures and scenarios for collaboration between states and private military and security companies in order to carry out in practice functions that belonged exclusively to state structures are the subject of research in this article.

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