Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Book Overview

As American troops became bogged down first in Iraq and then Afghanistan, a key component of U.S. strategy was to build up local police and security forces in an attempt to establish law and order. This approach, Jeremy Kuzmarov shows, is consistent with practices honed over more than a century in developing nations within the expanding orbit of the American empire. From the conquest of the Philippines and Haiti at the turn of the twentieth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499172
• ISBN13: 9781558499171
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"