Las empresas militares y de seguridad privadas como entidades que ejercen prerrogativas públicas a efectos de la responsabilidad internacional del estado

• Main Author: Vanessa Ballesteros Moya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI) 2013-06-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales
• Subjects: International Responsibility of the State; Private Military and Security Companies; exercise of public powers; criteria of attribution of conduct; non-State actors; Responsabilidad internacional del Estado; empresas militares y de seguridad privadas; ejercicio de prerrogativas públicas; criterios de atribución del comportamiento; actores no estatales
• Online Access: http://www.reei.org/index.php/revista/num25/articulos/empresas-militares-seguridad-privadas-como-entidades-ejercen-prerrogativas-publicas-efectos-responsabilidad-internacional-estado

Several questions regarding the responsibility of those involved stem from the phenomenon of privatization of state functions. This study analyzes the criteria of attribution according to which to the State is attributed a role, which in turn is used to empower entities to exercise elements of government authority, applying attribution rationale to cases where the State acts through private entities to develop their own functions. After an explanation of this phenomenon itself, and its relations with the role of mercenary, we will review the existing primary rules as well as private and public attempts to regulate this phenomenon. On the basis of this the attribution of conduct of these private entities the State will be analyzed and solutions regarding international State responsibility will be offered.