Chinese Private Security Companies and the limit of coercion

Ricardo Pereira, Ana Luquett, Rui Forte and Mohammad Eslami

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2023, vol. 34, issue 8, 1532-1557

Abstract: This article analyses how China has overcome the limit of coercion through the use of Private Security Companies since the end of the Cold War until 2021. For this purpose, the Security Governance approach was applied to understand how the decentralisation and fragmentation of the security monopoly by the state could result in convenient coercive acts against societies. We point two paths of observation: an international path – the protection of the Chinese diaspora and the Belt and Road Initiative facilities; and a national path – the governmental interests that pave the monitoring and controlling mechanisms of Chinese society.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2256645

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