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

• INTRODUCTION: THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CRIME CONTROL ; The History and Study of International Crime Control ; Narratives of International Crime Control ; The Plan of the Book ; ONE: CRIMINALIZATION THROUGH GLOBAL PROHIBITIONS ; The Nature and Evolution of Global Prohibitions ; Piracy and Privateering ; Slavery and the Slave Trade ; Prostitution ("White Slavery") ; International Drug Trafficking ; Endangered Species ; New and Emerging Global Prohibitions ; TWO: EUROPEAN ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL ; The "High Police" and the "Low Police" ; The Emergence of International Criminal Law Enforcement in Europe ; The Development of Criminal Investigative Bodies ; Multilateralism in European Policing ; The Origins of Interpol ; The Modern Era of European Police Cooperation ; THREE: U.S. ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL ; The Beginnings of U.S. Involvement in International Crime Control ; Policing Slavery ; The Emergence of Federal Law Enforcement ; Policing Borders ; The Early International Law Enforcement Activities of City Police ; The Early Years of U.S. Drug Enforcement Abroad ; The FBI Abroad ; The Activities of Other U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies Abroad ; The Internationalization of Evidence Gathering ; International Asset Forfeiture and Anti-Money Laundering Initiatives ; The International Rendition of Fugitives ; Continuity and Change in U.S. International Crime Control ; FOUR: INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL AFTER THE COLD WAR ; From Cold War to Crime War: The Fusion of U.S. Policing and Security ; The Buildup of U.S. Border Controls ; Beyond the Border: The Expanding Global Reach of U.S. Law Enforcement ; Policing an Integrating Europe after the Cold War ; Shifting Security Concerns and the Making of "Schengenland" ; Turning the EU's Eastern Neighbors into Buffer Zones ; Building EU Law Enforcement Institutions ; FIVE: INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 ; Expanding U.S. Policing Powers in a New Security Context ; From the U.S.-Led War on Drugs to the War on Terror ; Hardening, Internationalizing, and Digitizing U.S. Border Controls ; The Return of Counterterrorism to Center Stage in European Policing ; The Growth of Transatlantic Law Enforcement Cooperation ; SIX: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES ; The Primacy of Criminalization ; Homogenization and the Future of Global Prohibitions ; Regularization and the Fate of International Police Cooperation ; Securitization and Desecuritization ; The Europeanization of International Crime Control ; The Americanization of International Crime Control ; State Power, Globalization, and Transnational Crime ; Lessons and Implications ; Notes ; Index

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the policing of transnational crime