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Title War, police and assemblages of intervention / edited by Jan Bachmann, Colleen Bell and Caroline Holmqvist
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 231 pages)
Series Interventions
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Assemblages of War : Police : An Introduction / Jan Bachmann -- The Police Power in Counterinsurgencies : Discretion, Patrolling, and Evidence / Colleen Bell -- Policing Africa : The US Military and Visions of Crafting "Good Order" / Jan Bachmann -- Security Sector Reform (SSR) and the War : Police Assemblages of International Interventions / Marc Doucet and Miguel de Larrinaga -- The Enemy Live : A Genealogy / Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi -- The Utility of Proxy Detentions in Counterinsurgencies / Laleh Khalili -- Tribal Militias, Neo-Orientalism and the US Military's Art of Coercion / Oliver Belcher -- Checkpoints and the Gendered Policing of "Civilized" Nation-State Boundaries in Southern Thailand / Ruth Streicher -- A Mediterranean Police Assemblage / Barry J Ryan -- Air Power as Police Power / Mark Neocleous -- Intervention and Ontological Politics : Security, Pathologization, and the Failed State Effect in Goma / Peer Schouten and Kai Koddenbrock -- Afterword : War and Crime, Military and Police : The Assemblage of Violence by Security? / Didier Bigo
Summary This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with ground-breaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the first time, thoughts on how war and policing converge, amalgamate, diffuse and dissolve in the context both of actual international intervention and in understandings thereof. The book uses the caption WAR:POLICE to highlight the distinctiveness of this volume in presenting a variety of approaches that share a concern for the assemblage of war-p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject International police.
Armed Forces
Police power.
Intervention (International law)
Counterinsurgency.
armed forces.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Armed Forces.
Counterinsurgency.
International police.
Intervention (International law)
Police power.
Upprorsbekämpning.
Intervention (folkrätt)
Polisarbete.
Polisväsen.
Väpnade styrkor.
Form Electronic book
Author Bachmann, Jan, editor.
Bell, Colleen, 1975- editor.
Holmqvist, Caroline, editor.
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