Eboe Hutchful �Disposable or Indispensable? The monopoly on the use of force in the 21st Century�: With increasingly powerful non-state armed groups continuously challenging states, the international system as a whole seems to be under threat. However, state monopolies on force have always been more theoretical than real. Furthermore, some states have even voluntarily outsourced their forces of coercion and exploited private circuits of violence for their own purposes, as Eboe Hutchful points out in this Think Piece.