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History of international police cooperation: a 150-year evoluti / Gerspacher, Nadia

Gerspacher, Nadia	Journal Article
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2008.

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This paper traces the history of international police cooperation through the development of collaborative initiatives that various police actors have introduced since the mid-nineteenth century to address transnational crime on a multilateral basis. The beginnings of international police cooperation efforts were largely rooted in anti-anarchist policies pursued by European governments in order to protect the status quo. Police collaboration largely halted during the world wars, but the second half of the twentieth century witnessed an explosion of international cooperation mechanisms in policing as most states came to recognise the importance of multilateral action against transnational crime. International policing now encompasses sophisticated, official and far-reaching channels of information exchange and joint policing strategies and operations. Police cooperation has gone through cycles, however: the political motivation that originally encouraged foreign police agencies to share information on alleged perpetrators and their activities in due course took second place to specifically criminal investigations, but in today's security-driven policy environment the political dimension is once again on the rise, as police strategies are aimed at terrorist groups

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Transnational crime ; Interpol ; Organised Crime in History ; International Police Cooperation ; Europol ; TREVI

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Nodal Structure of International Police Cooperation: an exploration of transnational security networks / Gerspacher, Nadia; Dupont, Benoît

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2007.

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Facing sophisticated, resistant, and highly motivated terrorist and trans-national crime threats and numerous difficulties inherent in countermeasures, law enforcement and security providers have shifted from a bureaucratic and hierarchical approach toward a networking morphology. This trend more adequately equalizes the capacities of law enforcement authorities to combat fluid and flexible criminal networks. This article highlights new cooperation mechanisms that are being added to the existing instruments available to law enforcement agencies. The emphasis is on the role of informal initiatives by members of the law enforcement community. Based on the generally accepted assumption that state-driven initiatives generally constrain the level of contributions that formal international agreements can provide, we suggest that the staff of international organizations alter the environment in which law enforcement agencies must collaborate. This will enable the organizations to act as informal entrepreneurs that thrive in building the capacity of states to enhance their participation rates in international systems of information exchange and joint strategy development.

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International Cooperation ; International Security ; Networks ; Entrepreneurship ; International Policing

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