Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization

This original edited volume draws upon the latest work of a global cast of scholars and practitioners in several fields to examine the history, evolution and lessons of previous expeditionary police advising missions. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an explosion of efforts to build modern police forces in other lands via dispatching police advisory missions. There is much to be learned from these recent efforts, but there are equally valuable lessons to be gathered by examining the breadth of a practice that, surprisingly to most, dates to the end of the 19th century.

Chapters of the book are as follows:

Introduction (Edward B. Westermann and Donald Stoker)

1 Expeditionary Police Advising: A Brief History (Donald Stoker)

2 Paramilitary Police Auxiliaries and Counterinsurgency Warfare: The Failure of the Direct Approach in the Nazi East, 1941-1944 (Edward B. Westermann)

3 A Hidden Dimension of Britain’s ‘Informal Empire’: British Police and Security Advisors and Anti-Communist Measures in the Middle East,1949-1958 (Chikara Hashimoto)

4 ‘A Theoretical Middle Course’: The Militarization of Civilian Policing in1950s West Germany (David M. Livingstone)

5 The Public Safety Division and the National Police Field Force in Vietnam,1964-1971 (Stephen Connor)

6 The Military Police as Police Advisors: A Potential Solution with Many Challenges—Panama (1989-1999) and Kosovo (1999-2002) (Jason E. Fritz and Robert N. Dillon)

7 The Street Cop Fallacy: Effectively Targeting Local Police Reform in Kosovo Since 2008 and Bosnia, 2003-2012 (Birte Julia Gippert)

8 Challenges in Police Development: Insights from the War in Afghanistan,2001-2011 (Brian Erickson)

9 Village Stability Operations and the Afghan Local Police, 2010-2015 (Mark Moyar)

10 Assessing the Dutch Integrated Police-Training Mission in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, 2011-2013 (Georg Frerks and Niels Terpstra)

11 The Thin Blue Line: Police Advising in Dynamic Environments, Iraq (2003-2014) and Afghanistan (2009-2015) (Nicholas Kramer and Craig Whiteside)

12 Contracted Foreign Advisors in the Abu Dhabi Police Force: Explaining Their Enduring Presence, 2002-2015 (Athol Yates)

13Expeditionary Police Advising: Some Conclusions, Problems, and Lessons Learned (Donald Stoker and Edward B. Westermann)

 

"Observing that there has been a sharpincrease in efforts to build modern policeforces with the help of foreign advisers since the Cold War, the contributors to thisvolume assess the success of such effortsand draw lessons for future practitioners." Survival: Global Politics and Strategy