About this ebook
The book uses the caption WAR:POLICE to highlight the distinctiveness of this volume in presenting a variety of approaches that share a concern for the assemblage of war-police as a whole. The volume thus serves to bring together critical perspectives on liberal interventionism where the logics of war and police/policing blur and bleed into a complex assemblage of WAR:POLICE. Contributions to this volume offer an understanding of police as a technique of ordering and collectively take issue with accounts of the character of contemporary war that argue that war is simply reduced to policing. In contrast, the contributions show how – both historically and conceptually – the two are ‘always already’ connected. Contributions to this volume come from a variety of disciplines including international relations, war studies, geography, anthropology, and law but share a critical/poststructuralist approach to the study of international intervention, war and policing.
This volume will be useful to students and scholars who have an interest in social theories on intervention, war, security, and the making of international order.
About the author
Jan Bachmann, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Colleen Bell, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Caroline Holmqvist, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish National Defence College and Researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
