Tag Archives: Sovereignty

Haiti’s Vectus Gamble: Private Force and Private Customs in a Failing State

By: Max Ackerson From Angola and Sierra Leone to Iraq, private military companies (PMCs) have long stepped in to fill security gaps by providing close protection, logistics, surveillance, and training where states lacked capacity. In March 2025, Haiti’s transitional government hired Vectus Global, a PMC led by Erik Prince, founder and former CEO of the controversial PMC Blackwater, to support ongoing security operations against […]

Indigenous, But Not Really: Native Hawaiians Deserve a Chance at Self-Governance

By: Joshua Sloan November 28, 2022 Native Hawaiians were once a sovereign people who have become a neglected and impoverished minority in their own territory. In 1988, the American Indian Law Review laid out a comprehensive argument for granting Native Indigenous status for Native Hawaiians. 34 years later, no such status has been granted. So how has […]