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Title: Strategic Violations: The Outsourcing of Human Rights Abuses.
Author : The Humanist
Release Date : January 01, 2003
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 325 KB

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In her book Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns, Janice Thomson describes how "sea dogs" such as Francis Drake extorted large ransoms from Spanish colonial cities by threatening to destroy them if they failed to pay up. The sea dogs were virtually indistinguishable from other pirates, except that they were acting under the auspices of the British crown. Queen Elizabeth orchestrated their so-called private campaigns. And due in large part to these state-sanctioned ravages, by the late 16th-century England had gained naval superiority over Spain. In a sense, Drake was a subcontractor; the Queen outsourced work, employing him and other sea dogs to execute certain tasks which, in today's parlance, constituted blatant violations of human rights. The economic neologism outsourcing denotes, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "the obtaining of goods or contracting of work from sources outside a company or area." Replacing the word work with violations and adding the word government before company, imparts a definition which helps explain a pervasive strategy used these days to violate basic human rights: outsourcing, the contracting of violations from sources outside a government, company, or area