Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power

RYAN, BARRY J.

Abstract

This paper introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The paper tracks the development of reasonable force in late modern policing through to its emergence as a vanguard strategy of post-Cold War global governance. Police power, the paper finds, has transformed traditional sovereign power relations to incorporate governmental power. It finds policing power to be an expansive reforming force that exhibits a dynamic capacity to provide relational coherence to multi-layered policing constellations from the local to the global.

Citation

RYAN, B. J. (2013). Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power. Review of International Studies, 39(2), 435-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210512000137

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: May 29, 2012
• Publication Date: 2013-04
• Deposit Date: Jun 6, 2023
• Journal: Review of International Studies
• Print ISSN: 0260-2105
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-9044
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 435-457
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210512000137
• Keywords: Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science