1. Of the recent literature, the most useful general overviews are: Thomas K. Adams, “The New Mercenaries and the Privatization of Conflict”, Parameters (US Army War College Quarterly) Summer 1999. Accessible at; http://carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/parameters/99/sum mer/adams.htm; David Isenberg, “Soldiers of Fortune Ltd: A Profile of Today’s Private Sector Corporate Mercenary Firms”, paper for the Center for Defense Information, Washington, DC, November 1997, accessible at: http://www.cdi.org ; David Shearer, “Private Armies and Military Intervention”, Adelphi Paper 316 (Oxford, Oxford University Press/International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1998).
2. Shearer, “Private Armies”, p. 17.
3. Adams, “the New Mercenaries”, p. 1.
4. Enrique Ballesteros, United Nations Special Rapporteur, “Report on the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self determination”, United Nations Document E/CN.4/1998/31, 27.1.98, paras 67–92.
5. Ibid.