Disentangling the Regionalization of Law Enforcement in Southern Africa

  • Nicolas Dietrich

Abstract

This article contributes to the growing literature on new regionalism(s) in two ways: It irst exposes regional police cooperation as a neglected subject area in the study of regionalism/regionalization. The case of the emergence of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization (SARPCCO) is used to contextualize the regionalization of policing in relation to a perceived globalization of crime since the 990s. The article then introduces the framework portals of globalization as a methodological tool to study processes of regionalization. The framework is used to deepen the analysis of SARPCCO by helping to more concretely identify the actors, places, and spaces in and through which regionalization, as a multi-actor and multilevel process, takes place.

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2017

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Dietrich, N. (2017). Disentangling the Regionalization of Law Enforcement in Southern Africa. Comparativ, 27(3-4), 131–150. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2017.03/04.08