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The United States has gone further than any country in the "privatization of security". Other countries may find the economic or financial logic in the use of contractors persuasive. The US experience with contracting out security, particularly in Iraq, was problematic, and can serve as a cautionary tale in order that other countries might learn how to avoid the pitfalls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Humanitarian interventions (Bosnia, 1995-2003; Somalia, 1992-1993; Kosovo, 1999-2003) and the replacement of dictatorial regimes (Haiti, 1994; Afghanistan, 2001-2003; Iraq, 2003) in international politics have aroused much academic controversy throughout this past decade. This article analyzes, in light of the views of international relations and political science theorists, the legitimacy of such initiatives from the standpoint of the United States' unilateralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the article deals with the transition of the American presidential power. In the first months of the Obama's administration, there is a silence from the team of the previous president. However, the former vice-president Dick Cheney has broken this tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]