The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives

Abstract

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; 1. The global making of policing; Rethinking global policing through postcolonial perspectives; Global Policing; The global making of policing: Analytics for studying up, across and in-between; Contributions: on laboratories, 'South-South' encounters and postcolonial transnational assemblages; Bibliography; 2. Capillaries of empire: Colonial pacification and the origins of US global surveillance; Information and intelligence; Colonial Constabulary; Colonial blueprint Postwar surveillance'War on Terror'; Surveillance under Obama; Information and the future of U.S. global power; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3. Laboratories of pacification and permanent war: Israeli-US collaboration in the global making of policing; Legal imitations: Reciprocal states of exception; Biopolitical imitations: Israel and the 'Palestinianization' of Iraq; Space as exemplar: the Gaza lab; Geographical imitations: divide and rule; Vertical geopolitics: dronespace; Selling the security state; Security 'showroom': a global exemplar; Security-industrial complexes: joint ventures ConclusionBibliography; 4. Beyond the laboratory thesis: Gaza as transmission belt for war and security technology; Security, policing and settler governmentality; Israeli settler governmentality; Israel's transnational security industry: the laboratory thesis; Islands of control and separation as rule; Policing places and people elsewhere; War against non-places; Transferring illegitimacy and the governance of non-subjects; Policing the border: vehicles, sensors and pearls; Exporting the border logic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography 5. Entangled pacifications: Peacekeeping, counterinsurgency and policing in Port-au-Prince and Rio de JaneiroMINUSTAH and Brazilian peacekeeping; Counterinsurgent pacification in Cité Soleil; Counterinsurgent humanitarianism is coming home; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 6. Associated dependent security cooperation: Colombia and the United States; Colombian-U.S. relations and security cooperation: Plan Colombia; The gestation of security triangulation; Conceptualizing security triangulation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 7. Securing the diaspora: Policing global order Diasporas, armed conflict and liberal peace after the Cold WarTamil diaspora and liberal peace in Sri Lanka; Policing and producing 'the diaspora'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 8. 'British cop or international cop?' Global makings of international policing assistance, 2000-2014; Providing international policing assistance: democratic police reform or ad hoc policing?; Delivering international policing from the UK: career enhancing or career cul de sac?; A global policing exchange; Concluding observations; Notes; Bibliography