Political-semantic analysis of private military companies concept

The issue of private military companies is a subject of scientific and public debates due to their controversial legal status and the range of moral and ethical dilemmas of PMC use. The research aims to reveal and cover the meanings attributed to the concept through stage-by-stage deconstruction analysis. Besides the traditional text analysis, the research introduces related notions collection method via artificial intelligence language model, which contributes to a more detailed study of the issue and represents experimental AI technologies use in political research. The paper highlights the instrumental application of meanings attributed to the PMC concept, questions the appropriateness of terminology and reveals the key problem nodes related to the notion.