Private actors and enforcement of foreign policy

With Francesco Giumelli

This project will look at how private actors interpret, enforce, and comply with restrictive measures. The literature has focused on the role of private actors in the provision of public goods in domestic contexts, but less has been done when it comes to the role of for-profit private actors in the provision of security in foreign policy. In this field, the attention has almost exclusively been devoted to the study of Private Military and Security Companies, while the role of ‘less spectacular’ actors has been worrisomely overlooked.