Abstract:The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the paper explores the biopolitics of liberalization. The paper aims to demonstrate norms of internal security liberalization that operate beyond a legal understanding of state power. It illustrates the operation of a rule of police that produces norms conducive to the gove… Show more
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