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MERCENARIES, PIRATES, BANDITS AND EMPIRES PRIVATE VIOLENCE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT w \ I I XK I ^ 1 / r ' i J V 1 A I Sz W edited by Alejandro Colds | Bryan Mabee MERCENARIES, PIRATES, BANDITS AND EMPIRES Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires Private Violence in Historical Context edited by Alejandro Colas and Bryan Mabee Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © Alejandro Colas and Bryan Mabee, 2010 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mercenaries, pirates, bandits and empires : private violence in historical context / edited by Alejandro Colas and Bryan Mabee. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-70208-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-231-80052-3 (eBook) 1. Violence—History. 2. Political violence—History. 3. Non-state actors (International relations). 4. Piracy—History. 5. Mercenary troops—History. 6. Imperialism. 7. Private military companies. 8. Private security services. I. Colas, Alejandro. II. Mabee, Bryan. III. Title. JC328.6.M47 2010 303.609—dc22 2010029997 0 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in India c 10987654321 References to Internet Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the editors nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Private Violence in Historical Context 1 Alejandro Colds and Bryan Mabee 1. Distinctions, Distinctions: 'Public' and 'Private' Force? 15 Patricia Owens 2. State and Armed Force in International Context Tarak Barkawi 33 3. Privateers of the North Sea: At Worlds End—French Privateers in Norwegian "Waters Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho 55 4. The Flow and Ebb of Private Seaborne Violence in Global Politics: Lessons from the Atlantic "World, 1689-1815 83 Alejandro Colds and Bryan Mabee 5. Violent Undertows: Smuggling as Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia Eric Tagliacozzo 107 6. 'Tribes' and "Warlords in Southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005 133 Antonio Giustozzi and Noor Ullah 7. The Criminal-State Symbiosis and the Yugoslav Wars 159 of Succession Kenneth Morrison 8. Private Security Companies in the Malacca Straits: Mapping New Patterns of Security Governance Patrick Cullen 187 9. Securing the City: Private Security Companies and Non-State Authority in Global Governance 213 Rita Abrahams en and Michael C. Williams Contributors 237 Index 241 v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book had its origins in a workshop entitled 'Pirates, Bandits, Mercenaries and Terrorists: Privatised Violence in Historical Context', held at Queen Mary, University of London on 23 May 2008. We would like to thank all of the par- ticipants in the original workshop for what was a very inspiring day, and also to those who were not at the workshop but have since then prepared papers especially for this volume. We would also like to thank the British Academy, who supplied the funding for the original workshop on which the project was based (British Academy grant SG-48319). The chapters by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams, and Patricia Owens are republished here with per- mission from the journals International Relations and International Affairs, respectively. vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AIM Alternative Informativna Mreza (Alternative Information Network) ANC African National Congress ARBiH Armija Bosne i Hercegovine (Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina) BARS Background Asia Risk Solutions BHL Ban Hoe Leong BSA Bosnian Serb Army CCID Central City Improvement Districts CHAN Centre Historique dArchives Nationaux CID City Improvement Districts CSD Centre for the Study of Democracy EIC East India Company ESRC The Economic and Social Research Council EU European Union EUFOR European Union force FRY Federal Republic of Yugoslavia {Savezna Republika Jugoslavija) FYROM The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia CDMA Glenn Defense Marine Asia GDP Gross Domestic Product HDK Hizb-i Demokratik-e Khalq (Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan) HDZ Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica (the Croatian Democratic Union) HMS Harbour Marine System HUMSEC Human Security in the Western Balkan Region HVO Hrvatsko Vijece Obrane (Croatian Council of Defence) ix
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