Synopses & Reviews
This book focuses on the role of private businesses in zones of conflict. It looks at the type of governance contributions expected from transnational business corporations towards peace and security and draws conclusions as to what determines their contributions.
Synopsis
Corporate Security Responsibility? focuses on the role of private business in zones of conflict. 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.
About the Author
NICOLE DEITELHOFF is Professor of International Relations, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
KLAUS DIETER WOLF is Chair of International Relations, Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany.
Table of Contents
Corporate Security Responsibility? Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security Zones of Conflict--
N.Deitelhoff &--K.D.WolfHeres 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
Conclusions: The Changing Relationship between the Public and the Private: Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security--K.D.Wolf &--N.Deitelhoff
An Agenda for Further Research--M.Feil, S.Fischer, A.Haidvogl &--M.Zimmer