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

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Kuzmarov is Jay P. Walker Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tulsa and author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009). Listen to a radio interview of Kuzmarov at http: //publicradiotulsa.org/post/police-training-and-nation-building-american-century Klappentext A probing analysis of the impact of American policing operations abroad Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Kuzmarov
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9781558499171
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-917-1
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Culture and Politics in the Co
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous