War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention

Jan Bachmann, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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 groundbreaking 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.

Assemblages of War:Police - An Introduction, Jan Bachmann, University of Gothenburg, Colleen Bell, University of Saskatchewan, Caroline Holmqvist, Swedish National Defence College Part I: Ordering 1. The Police Power in Counterinsurgencies: Discretion, Patrolling, and Evidence, Colleen Bell, University of Saskatchewan 2. Policing Africa - The US Military and Visions of Crafting 'Good Order', Jan Bachmann, University of Gothenburg 3. Security Sector Reform (SSR) and the War:Police Assemblages of International Interventions, Marc Doucet, St. Mary's University and Miguel de Larrinaga, University of Ottawa Part II: Othering 4. The Enemy Live: A Genealogy, Laurence McFalls, University of Montreal and Mariella Pandolfi, University of Montreal 5. The Utility of Proxy Detentions in Counterinsurgencies, Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 6. Tribal Militias, Neo-Orientalism and the US Military's Art of Coercion, Oliver Belcher, University of Oulu, Finland 7. Checkpoints and the Gendered Policing of 'Civilized' Nation-State Boundaries in Southern Thailand, Ruth Streicher, Free University of Berlin PART III: Spatializing 8. A Mediterranean Police Assemblage, Barry J Ryan, Keele University 9. Air Power as Police Power, Mark Neocleous, Brunel University 10. Intervention and Ontological Politics: Security, Pathologization, and the Failed State Effect in Goma, Peer Schouten, University of Gothenburg and Kai Koddenbrock, University of Duisburg-Essen Afterword: War and Crime, Military and Police: The Assemblage of Violence by Security? Didier Bigo, King's College, University of London and Sciences Po