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Center for International Relations
and Sustainable Development

Modern Warfare: Corporate Mercenaries and Wars for Profit

Mercenaries are referred to as the “ world’s second-oldest profession ”. The private military force began to be stigmatised as a result of nation-states that effectively outlawed the private force: the Westphalian world order. The end of the Cold War catalysed an emergence of mercenary activity, whi…