European Journal of Policing Studies – Jaargang 3/2 (2015) (ISSN 2034-760x) – Special issue Policing, Boundaries and the State

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Contents:

Introduction
A. Verhage, L. Bisschop, W. Hardyns & D. Boels

Articles

Policing, Boundaries and theState: The Changing Landscapeof Sovereignty and Security. Introduction to the Edition
C. Giacomantonio (1) & H.O.I. Gundhus (2)

(1) Analyst atRAND Europe, a not-for-profit policy research institution based in Cambridge, UK and Brussels,BE.
(2) Professor at Norwegian Police University College, Research Department.

Talking to the Man. Some Gendered Reflections on theRelationship Between the GlobalSystem and Policing Subculture(s)
B. Bowling (1) & J. Sheptycki (2)

Abstract
This paper reflects on the interplay between the transnational subculture of policing and thesubculture of transnational policing and pays particular attention to the encoding of masculinetropes within them. It uses the culture/subculture distinction to illuminate how gendered masculineidentities help to mediate the relationship between the broader culture of control and the occupationalsubculture(s) of policing. The paper is part of an attempt to theorize global policing asa synecdoche of the global system, an idea that is fundamentally challenging to our ideas aboutthe boundaries of the state. In this paper we draw attention to the specifically ‘masculinist’ natureof the discourse concerning global policing practice, which is often essentialized in dyadic terms;in extremis, in terms of chivalrous knights and rapacious Bluebeards. The paper looks at themilitarization of US policing and briefly explores the global terrain of public order policing in thecontemporary period, again drawing attention to the masculine tropes that pervade the scene. Thepaper endeavors to show how the prevalence of problematic masculine role-types in the enactmentpolicing subculture(s) affects the global system.

Keywords: transnational policing; subculture(s); masculinity; global policing; militarization of policing

(1) Deputy Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law.
(2) Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and ProfessionalStudies York University Toronto, Canada.

Justifications and StateActions. EU Police Cooperation, SchengenBorders and Norwegian Sovereignty
S. Ugelvik (1)

Abstract
Building on an assessment of Norwegian policy documents from 1994 to 2012, this article providesa critical analysis of the process leading up to the Norwegian agreements with EU, primarily thoseconcerning police cooperation. The purpose is to discuss the Norwegian Government’s justificationsfor entering into the agreements throughout this period. The Norwegian Government firstlyargued that the pertinent agreements were imperative to maintain the free travel-arrangementsalready existing between the Nordic countries. This justification was shortly after moderated, andhad a few years later disappeared completely. It was replaced by a former secondary argument; thepressing need for enhanced police cooperation. This article presents some of the changes the EUagreements involved for the Norwegian police. It shows a discrepancy between the policiary needsand purposes as these were presented fluctuating throughout a relatively short period of time.Further, it reveals the lack of debate concerning what may be seen as fundamental changes in theway a sovereign nation state interacts with other states and their citizens. The article discusseswhat it may imply when justifications turn out to be flawed due to weak foundational premises, orbecause of later developments, but are still repeated or circumvented, or even used tautologically, topromote a certain outcome. It finds that this may