Publication

This monograph examines the growing prominence of private security companies (PSCs) in four Southeast European countries and the governance challenges they raise. The countries are Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia. The challenges, in turn, center on national security, human rights, and the democratic control of PSCs. To resolve the problems that exist, the text’s various authors provide a series of recommendations that specify the duties of individual actors associated with the private security sector, including those working in the PSC industry, legislators, state agencies and independent oversight bodies.