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Exporting the UK Policing Brand 1989 - 2021 is an in-depth study of the history and development of the UK policing brand. In this book, Sinclair charts the long and vivid international history and enduring mythology surrounding the UK policing brand, which has continued to shape and colour its evolution since the end of the cold war.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Conceptualizing the International Policing Agenda
- 2: The UK Policing Brand in Historical Context: Myth and Reality
- 3: From Peacekeeping to Statebuilding: 'Conflict Entrepreneurs'
- 4: UK Policing in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya: After 9/11
- 5: The Rise of Police and Security Contracting
- 6: Promoting the UK Policing Brand: Coherence and Fragmentation
- 7: Police Scotland and PSNI: New International Policing Agendas
- 8: 'Global Britain' and the Future of International Policing Assistance
- Concluding Observations
About the author
Georgina Sinclair is a senior adviser in policing and law enforcement for security sector reform within fragile and conflict affected states. Until 2014, she had an academic career, first as a lecturer in imperial and commonwealth history at the Universities of Reading and Leeds and latterly as a researcher at the Open University at the International Centre for Crime, Policing and Justice. Her earlier research focused on British colonial policing and decolonization while latterly she has focused on the internationalization of UK policing and the impact on the UK police brand.
Summary
Exporting the UK Policing Brand 1989 - 2021 is an in-depth study of the history and development of the UK policing brand. In this book, Sinclair charts the long and vivid international history and enduring mythology surrounding the UK policing brand, which has continued to shape and colour its evolution since the end of the cold war.
