Book Review: Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations

Policing the Globe addresses the intersection of two disciplines, international relations and criminology. In the context of the complexity and diversity of crime control in international relations, the authors, Peter Andreas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University, and Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, discuss the expansion of international cooperation and institutions developed amidst growing interdependence and transnational flows. In particular, the book considers the "coercive co-optation and hegemonic leadership" of the U.S. and Western Europe, and "and the transnational moral element involved in the creation and spread of global norms behind international criminology and enforcement … [more]