What Does Political Science Teach Us About Why Countries Use Private Military Groups like Wagner and Blackwater?
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The Evolution of Security Privatization
There's been a global learning curve on some of these. Each of these can be in play for the other countries. What will be interesting is if this is an evolutionary process. The US starts it by kind of just thinking through how it wants to govern. Russia looks at Blackwater and says, well, we can project power using non-state actors as well. How does China read that situation? Benjamin: How do other actors start to interpret what security privatization can do for them?
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