This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security
companies (PMSCs) including China's negotiation approach to governance an account of
Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram and a
study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa. The author engages with concepts and theories from
IR Political Economy and African studies-like regime forum shopping and extraversion-to
describe what shapes state choices in national and international fora. The volume clarifies and
spells out the needed questions and definitions and proposes a synthesis of how regime
formation is shaped by ideas interests and institutions starting from the proposition that
regulatory cooperation consists in facilitating the acceptance and use of a single identifier
for private military and security companies.
