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Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations
Oxford University Press
September 2006
On Sale: August 31, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0195089480
EAN: 9780195089486
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns
against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against
drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas
and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and
policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The
internationalization of crime control is too often described
as simply a natural and predictable response to the growth
of transnational crime in an age of globalization. Andreas
and Nadelmann challenge this conventional view as at best
incomplete and at worst misleading. The internationalization
of policing, they demonstrate, primarily reflects ambitious
efforts by generations of western powers to export their own
definitions of "crime," not just for political and economic
gain but also in an attempt to promote their own morals to
other parts of the world. A thought-provoking analysis of
the historical expansion and recent dramatic acceleration of
international crime control, Policing the Globe provides a
much-needed bridge between criminal justice and
international relations on a topic of crucial public importance.
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