Publication

This issue includes articles on 1) Azerbaijan’s main geopolitical challenges; 2) private military and security companies and the regulatory environment in Iraq since 2011; 3) the role of US private prison corporations in country's immigration policy; 4) the privatization of security provision in Post-Communist Poland; 5) UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding; 6) the legitimacy of international intervention in Libya in 2011 in light of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P); and 7) developments within Shi’a political Islam during Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s term in office. It also includes five book reviews.