ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the conventional conceptualisation of security as a public good and the soldier's role within social contractarian civil-military relations to provide security as a public good. It outlines the changing concept of security in the era of cosmopolitan foreign policy, highlighting the challenges it poses to the state and the soldier intended to provide for it. The chapter examines the hypothetical case of the contractor using armed force to provide cosmopolitan security in humanitarian intervention. It demonstrates that from a liberal social contractarian point of view, the contractor may provide the solution to the state's moral dilemma. The chapter argues that unlike the soldier, the contractor can be used to provide security as a global good without infringing any discretionary covenants between society, state and soldier. The professional flexibility of the contractor operating outside a conventional civil-military complex may undermine the contractor's role as a public security provider for the benefit of society and state.
