Imperialism, the State and the Police

Abstract

The preceding chapter has explored a range of difficulties that current theorising on transnational policing faces in explaining its object, the nature and logic of the mission, of the actors and of the actions it involves. The development of this field of study, driven by the evolving demands for knowledge posed by its immediate institutional sponsors and the established problematics of its parent disciplines, has produced a distinctive explanation of the empirical manifestations of the internationalisation of police activities. Prior work has admitted international agency to the police by detaching it from the monolithic subjectivist imagery of the sovereign state.