Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations

In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization of crime control is too often described as simply a natural and predictable response to the growth of transnational crime in an age of globalization. Andreas and Nadelmann challenge this conventional view as at best incomplete and at worst misleading. The internationalization of policing, they demonstrate, primarily reflects ambitious efforts by generations of western powers to export their own definitions of crime, not just for political and economic gain but also in an attempt to promote their own morals to other parts of the world.

A thought-provoking analysis of the historical expansion and recent dramatic acceleration of international crime control, Policing the Globe provides a much-needed bridge between criminal justice and international relations on a topic of crucial public importance.


Author: Peter Andreas, Ethan Nadelmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/25/2008
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.16h x 7.32w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780195341959

About the Author

Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University.
Ethan Nadelmann is Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

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