Critical Approaches to Global Police Power

Amit Prakash is Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Middlebury College where he teaches courses on anticolonialism, policing, and border control. He is the author of Empire on Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 (2022). Max Ward is Professor of History at Middlebury College, author of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (2019) and co-editor of Transwar Asia: Ideology, Institutions, Practices, 1920-1960 (2022) and Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017).

• Introduction: Towards a Critical Analysis of Global Police Power by Amit Prakash and Max Ward Part I: Questioning “Origins” and Global Circulations of the Police IdeaChapter 1: Policía beyond the Policeby Laura Gutiérrez and Mark Neocleous Chapter 2:Japan and the Global Circulation of the Police Ideaby Max Ward Part II: Coloniality, Globality, and the PoliceChapter 3: The “Colonial-Global” and the Birth of the New Police in England and the United States by Julian Go Chapter 4: The French Connection: The “Oil Stain” Theory of Counterinsurgency and the Making of Global Police Powerby Amit Prakash Part III: Global Perspectives, Local PoliceChapter 5:Revisiting the Perfect Policeman, Questioning Global Perspectives: Policing and Modernity in 1930s Colonial Indonesiaby Marieke Bloembergen Chapter 6: Policing Against Capitalism: A Maoist Genealogy of Revolutionary Policingby Jeffrey T. Martin Part IV: The Challenge of Understanding and Confronting Global Police PowerChapter 7: Policing Us into Extinctionby Guillermina Seri Chapter 8: A Critique of Global Police Power: A ConversationAlex Vitale and Stuart Schrader Bibliography List of Contributors

With remarkable breadth and depth, this cross-disciplinary collection of leading scholars confront global histories, theoretical debates and the pressing political issues relating to policing across the planet today.