Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power

Ryan, Barry J.

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“…As counterterror is now synonymous with many political ambitions, strategies have developed to merge military provision with police provision and practices of war with law enforcement. The implications, as Ryan (2013) explains, are that conventional limits concerning roles and functions are turned into strategic linkages and assemblages.…”

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“…Easton and Moelkers (2007) have already pointed to the challenges that both security services will face as they take on one another’s characters. Scholars who focus on the “militarization” of the police analyze how the public police rely more heavily upon military equipment and special units inspired by military designs (Kraska, 2007; Krasman, 2007; Loader & Percy, 2012; Murray, 2015; Ryan, 2013). Arguments have been advanced, in particular in the context of counterterrorism policing, of the consequences (unintended or otherwise) of shifts in the public police utilizing military tactics and hardware.…”

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“Soldiering By Consent” and Military–Civil Relations: Military Transition Into the Public Space of Policing

Murray

Taylor

2019

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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Growth in the Armed Forces undertaking public policing is occurring in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and as such a complex security landscape emerges, both practically and conceptually. The aim here is to pose questions of the manifest and latent issues in the assemblage of multiple actors in public policing. It aks to reader to consider the implications of military actors transitioning from defence duties ordinarily associated with military work, to policing activities in public spaces. Taking the London 2012 Olympic Games as our point of reference, this article argues that to understand military presence, their role must be considered in the broader context of military and policing functions, the 'war on terror', accountability, and future priorities for public policing. We must be careful not to assign the presence of the military into pre-existing understandings of how mega-events should be securedthe military patrolling the streets of London represents more. Instead, as their presence comes to be legitimate in certain geopolitical contexts, critical questions must be asked especially as public and private arrangements are continually reworked in the domestic fight against terrorism.

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“Soldiering By Consent” and Military–Civil Relations: Military Transition Into the Public Space of Policing

Murray

Taylor

2019

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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“…Global police power plays a distinct pre-emptive role in global governance, significantly weakening the regulatory capacity of the state (Ryan, 2013). The global police can be understood as "a supranational investigative body with enforcement powers" that maintains good international order (Bowling and Sheptycki, 2012: 130).…”

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“…Rather than being constraining, various centres of the global policing gradually encourage and discipline states to frame their policies in accordance with global models (Meyer, 2007: 263). In the postCold War era, guiding Russia and many East European states towards the liberal future became one such example (Ryan, 2013).…”

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Russia and Carl Schmitt: the hybridity of resistance in the globalised world

Kurylo

2016

Palgrave Commun

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The rise of state dissidence has challenged the hegemony of Western liberalism on the international relations stage. Russia's ongoing involvement in the Ukraine crisis is a case in point. Russia's dissidence threatens not only the already fragile European order, but also the potency of liberalism as a system of international norms. Hence, a great deal of attention has been given to trying to determine the possible failures and solutions of global governance in dealing with Russia. In contrast, this article argues for the need to understand state resistance from the perspective of the dissenting state. By drawing upon Carl Schmitt's influential critique of globalizing liberalism, the article attempts to analyse what Russia's resistance reveals about the subtle mechanisms of global liberal governance. On the basis of Schmitt's theory, the article establishes that Russia's dissidence can be an attempt to preserve state sovereignty and its unique "way of life", as well as state pluralism on the global arena. In fact, to eradicate conflict, liberal governance attempts to suppress state pluralism as a potential cause of conflict. In the long run, however, this risks provoking radical resistance in response. The article then analyses the "hybrid" strategy of Russia's resistance employed in the Ukraine crisis, based on which it identifies the major weaknesses of liberal governance. The article concludes that the inadequacy of international law to deal with unconventional forms of warfare and refusal to acknowledge the possibility of animosity can significantly debilitate liberal governance. This article is published as part of a collection on global governance.

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“…3 Consequently, notwithstanding the propensity for human rights and the rule of law to frame liberalization processes, it needs to be recognised that only a fraction of police reforms that occur in these settings are based on the enforcement of law. 4 It is in fact more common for police reform to be motivated by less principled, more contingent socioeconomic considerations that stem from the prerogatives of state and inter-state security. …”

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Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights

Ryan

2016

The International Journal of Human Rights

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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 governance of a dynamic market state. It argues that the rule of police subsists within but also subverts the rule of law and human rights approach to democratic development. KEYWORDSPolice; Biopolitics; Human Rights; Foucault; Liberalization. INTRODUCTIONIt goes without saying that the rule of law is a foundational referent in all strategies of police reform in post-conflict settings. The assumption that state power can be regulated and liberalized through the rule of law enlivens advocates who associate improvements in the exercise of sovereign power with adherence to human rights. Claims are made on behalf of the rule of law approach that point to its role in economic development, democratization and poverty reduction. 1 Since the early 1990's a constellation of international organizations, NGO's, state aid agencies, academe, think-tanks and private interests has produced a sizeable body of knowledge gleaned from their experiences in various postconflict and post-socialist societies. This paper argues that somewhat blinkered assumptions regarding the nature of sovereign power and the transcendental potential of its rule of law pervade this body of knowledge and the assemblage of practices that constitute it. Encoded within the definition of a rule of law approach is an apolitical attitude to good governance that equates law to the objectivity of scientific positivism. 2 However in reality, the exercise of power within a state is more messy and complex than the rule of law can possibly regulate. When applied to the field of police reform, it is hardly radical to suggest that a great deal of police activity operates beyond the parameters of the law. 3 Consequently, notwithstanding the propensity for human rights and the rule of law to frame liberalization processes, it needs to be recognised that only a fraction of police reforms that occur in these settings are based on the enforcement of law. 4 It is in fact more common for police reform to be motivated by less principled, more contingent socioeconomic considerations that stem from the prerogatives of state and inter-state security. 3These are prerogatives that have historically had a promiscuous relationship with conceptions of justice and the rule of law more generally.Thus the article introduces an alternative analysis of police reform embedded not in the rule of law but on the pragmatics of securing national identity through a process of liberalization. The paper examines the early stages of police reform in the Republic of Montenegro as an exemp...

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Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

“Soldiering By Consent” and Military–Civil Relations: Military Transition Into the Public Space of Policing

“Soldiering By Consent” and Military–Civil Relations: Military Transition Into the Public Space of Policing

Russia and Carl Schmitt: the hybridity of resistance in the globalised world

Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights

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