This edited volume seeks to make a clear and potent intervention in debates on contemporary international politics, intervention, and war by highlighting the different dimensions of warpolice assemblages therein. The New Interventionism reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with groundbreaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the first time, thoughts on how war and policing converge, amalgamate, diffuse and dissolve in the context both of actual international intervention and in understandings thereof. Until now, theoretical work on international intervention has tended to focus on the discourses of international intervention, whereas the bulk of studies examining police in the international context have been empirically oriented in examining distinct practices strictly institutional in focus, or in search of a transnational ethics of police. Invoking the concept of assemblages in this volume signals an equal concern for discourses (political, legal, ethical), practices, and materialisms of the war/police intersection.We use the caption WAR: POLICE to highlight the distinctiveness of this volume in presenting a variety of approaches that share a concern for the assemblage of war-police as a whole. The volume thus serves to bring together critical perspectives on liberal interventionism where the logics of war and police/policing blur and bleed into a complex assemblage of WAR: POLICE. Contributions to this volume offer an understanding of police as a technique of ordering and collectively take issue with accounts of the character of contemporary war that argue that war is simply reduced to policing. In contrast, the contributions show how - both historically and conceptually - the two are 'always already' connected. Contributions to this volume come from a variety of disciplines including international relations, war studies, geography, anthropology, and law but share a critical/poststructuralist approach to the study of international intervention, war and policing. The contributors analyse specific assemblages through a number of concepts that are related to policing and war.These include concepts such as order(ing), notions of the enemy orother, transformation and containment, violence and consent as well as law and legitimisation. This work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of areas including international intervention, contemporary war/military studies and conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and managemen

This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with ground-breaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the first time, thoughts on how war and policing converge, amalgamate, diffuse and dissolve in the context both of actual international intervention and in understandings thereof. The book uses the caption WAR:POLICE to highlight the distinctiveness of this volume in presenting a variety of approaches that share a concern for the assemblage of war-police as a whole. The volume thus serves to bring together critical perspectives on liberal interventionism where the logics of war and police/policing blur and bleed into a complex assemblage of WAR:POLICE. Contributions to this volume offer an understanding of police as a technique of ordering and collectively take issue with accounts of the character of contemporary war that argue that war is simply reduced to policing. In contrast, the contributions show how - both historically and conceptually - the two are 'always already' connected. Contributions to this volume come from a variety of disciplines including international relations, war studies, geography, anthropology, and law but share a critical/poststructuralist approach to the study of international intervention, war and policing. This volume will be useful to students and scholars who have an interest in social theories on intervention, war, security, and the making of international order.

From Guant namo Bay to the war in Iraq, the implementation of
security measures since 9/11 has sparked fears that Western nations are
violating the very rights and freedoms they pledge to promote and
protect. The United States has been at the centre of debates, but how
have the politics of security influenced the commitment to freedom in
other liberal democracies?

In The Freedom of Security, Colleen Bell argues that
Canada's counter-terrorism and national security practices should
not be framed as a departure from liberal governance - a
trade-off between security and freedom - but rather as a
restructuring of modalities of governance through the framework of
security. Through timely examples - security certificates and
border controls, the deployment of troops in Afghanistan, and the
detainment and torture of Abdullah Almalki in Syria - Bell
demonstrates that security measures are not simply eroding civil
liberties and respect for human rights, as their opponents argue. Nor
are these measures protecting freedom and liberty, as their adherents
claim: they are fundamentally reshaping ideas and practices of
freedom.

Engaging with the works of Foucault, Agamben, and Schmitt, this
critical study of Canada's "war on terror" exposes
the pervasive ways in which the logic and practices of security are
coming to define our rights and freedoms.