ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues the diverse and extensive role of market involvement in military and civilian efforts at the local, national and international levels, as well as to point to some of the key questions that the development engenders. It shows individual countries have adopted different approaches to security and logistical outsourcing to support, in particular, their expeditionary operations abroad. The book addresses the issue surrounding the regulation, ethics and corporate social responsibility of private security companies (PSCs), which are multifaceted and complex. The use of security contractors by such states and the creation of domestic markets for force', moreover, calls attention to the ways in which processes of state-building and the ways in which contextual factors and the logic of the Afghan war-system' help shape both the nature and outcome of security outsourcing by both external and local actors.
