Corporate Security Responsibility? focuses on the role of private business
in zones of conflict.
It provides a picture of the types of contribution made to peace and security
by transnational corporations. The volume comprises a range of comparative empirical case
studies based on extensive field research. From this research, conclusions are drawn about
what determines these contributions and the implications of these empirical and
theoretical findings for the interplay between the public and the private sector in the
context of global governance.
The book contributes to closing the gap between research on Global Governance and Peace
and Conflict Studies. It applies a systematic research design to the study of corporate
governance contributions to peace and security across a number of cases
NICOLE DEITELHOFF is Professor of International Relations, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
She is also project director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). She is one
of the Principal Investigators of the Cluster of Excellence 'Formation of Normative
Orders'.
KLAUS DIETER WOLF is Chair of International Relations, Technische
Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is also the Deputy Director of the Peace Research
Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence
'Formation of Normative Orders'. He was President of the German Political Science
Association (DVPW) from 2003-2006.
Table of Contents
Corporate Security Responsibility? Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace
and Security Zones of Conflict; N.Deitelhoff& K.D.Wolf
Here's to Peace: Governance Contributions by Companies in Rwanda and the
Democratic Republic of Congo?; M.Feil
Oil Companies in Nigeria: Emerging Good Practice or Still Fuelling Conflict?;
M.Zimmer
Calling on Peace: The International ICT Sector and the Conflict in the Democratic
Republic of Congo; L.Wallbott
Walking the Extra-Mile? Corporate Contributions Towards the Peace Process in
Northern Ireland; A.Haidvogl
Travelling for Peace? The Role of Tourism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict;
S.Fischer
Chartered Companies: Linking Private Security Governance in Early and Post
Modernity; K.D.Wolf
Private Security and Military Companies: The Other Side of Business and Conflict;
N.Deitelhoff
Business in Zones of Conflict and Global Security Governance: What has been Learnt
and Where to from Here?; CSecR Research Group
280 pages, Hardcover
