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Statebuilding and police reform : the freedom of security / Barry J. Ryan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Barry J., author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding.
- Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police.
- Police--International cooperation.
- International police.
- Nation-building.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War.Police reform has become an indispensible element in the spread of liberal democracy. Policing is distinguished by its ability to combine reasonable and forcible methods to preserve and spread liberal values. The book examines the reason police reform was introduced as a method of building consensus in Latin America and the Balkans and documents the development of its use in Africa, the Middle East and the Caucasus region. It illustr
- Contents:
- Freedom, within reason
- Securing reasonable force
- An exceptional evolution
- A policing machine : the UN
- The logos of EU policing power
- OSCE and policing power
- Constellating a security sector.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-24473-1
- 1-283-10232-3
- 9786613102324
- 1-135-24474-X
- 0-203-86774-2
- 9780203867747
- OCLC:
- 773564539
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