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Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power (2012)
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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

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... Read More about Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power.