Sentence examples for mercenarism from inspiring English sources

In the process, the superpower unleashed a new norm in international relations: the legitimate use of private military force, or mercenarism to many.

To many, the decision to outsource lethality to armed civilians in foreign lands, who are tasked to kill people when necessary, smacks of mercenarism.

Building on an approach first proposed by Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution, who proposed the creation of a public international body (PIB), "formed under the auspices of the U.N. Secretary General's Special Rapporteur on Mercenarism" she writes that the PIB could be created by formulating a multilateral treaty with a self-executing mechanism in signatory states.