Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations

by Ethan Nadelmann and Peter Andreas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195341953
• ISBN13: 9780195341959
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"