Jon D. Michaels (UCLA) has posted Private Military Firms, the American Precedent, and the Arab Spring (48 Stanford Journal of International Law 277 (2012)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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This essay, part of the Stanford International Law Journal’s symposium on the Arab Spring, examines the special role foreign military contractors have played (1) in deterring and helping suppress domestic uprisings across the Arab world and (2) in altering the trajectory of the military-contractor industry.