Global Webs of Counterinsurgency Policing

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

Over recent decades, there has been an increasing interest in how global and transnational interlinkages in the fields of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency have intimately shaped and transformed transnational and domestic policing. In this panel, we bring together scholars at the cutting-edge of COIN policing research to address under-explored and under-theorised aspects of this topic, within a wide-ranging disciplinary focus (including law, criminology, anthropology, and politics) and geographical focus (including UK, Pakistan, and Israel). Their contributions expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the interconnections between policing and COIN agencies, doctrines, and practices, beyond dominant Ango-American understandings and perspectives. Panellists will critically unpack how colonial and postcolonial legacies of COIN policing continue to influence contemporary policing practices and philosophies. They will also consider how COIN policing has been mainstreamed globally, across multiple sites, through diverse security actors and agencies, in response to newly emerging threats, thus informing policing across multiple settings. They will further explore how domestic policing is a globalised project within which international transfers of knowledge and networks of security governance and development are generating and circulating COIN policing knowledge around the globe.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Policing and Law enforcement (Policing WG)

Chair

• Zoha Waseem, University of Warwick

Individual Presentations

• Counterinsurgency Policing the British Way: Border Controls and the Global Making of Policing - Ana Aliverti, University of Warwick

• (Northern) Irish Policing & The ‘Sticky’ Police-Craft of COIN - Conor O'Reilly, University of Leeds

• Security Narratives: the Seductive Politics of the Israeli Security Industry - Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam

• Webs, Walls, Watchmen: Counterinsurgency Policing and Digital Authoritarianism in Pakistan - Zoha Waseem, University of Warwick