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 the
State: The Changing Landscape
of Sovereignty and Security. Introduction to the Edition
C. Giacomantonio (1) & H.O.I. Gundhus (2)

(1) Analyst at
RAND 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 the
Relationship Between the Global
System and Policing Subculture(s)
B. Bowling (1) & J. Sheptycki (2)

Abstract
This paper reflects on the interplay between the transnational subculture of policing and the
subculture of transnational policing and pays particular attention to the encoding of masculine
tropes within them. It uses the culture/subculture distinction to illuminate how gendered masculine
identities help to mediate the relationship between the broader culture of control and the occupational
subculture(s) of policing. The paper is part of an attempt to theorize global policing as
a synecdoche of the global system, an idea that is fundamentally challenging to our ideas about
the boundaries of the state. In this paper we draw attention to the specifically ‘masculinist’ nature
of 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 the
militarization of US policing and briefly explores the global terrain of public order policing in the
contemporary period, again drawing attention to the masculine tropes that pervade the scene. The
paper endeavors to show how the prevalence of problematic masculine role-types in the enactment
policing 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 Professional
Studies York University Toronto, Canada.

Justifications and State
Actions. EU Police Cooperation, Schengen
Borders and Norwegian Sovereignty
S. Ugelvik (1)

Abstract
Building on an assessment of Norwegian policy documents from 1994 to 2012, this article provides
a critical analysis of the process leading up to the Norwegian agreements with EU, primarily those
concerning police cooperation. The purpose is to discuss the Norwegian Government’s justifications
for entering into the agreements throughout this period. The Norwegian Government firstly
argued that the pertinent agreements were imperative to maintain the free travel-arrangements
already existing between the Nordic countries. This justification was shortly after moderated, and
had a few years later disappeared completely. It was replaced by a former secondary argument; the
pressing need for enhanced police cooperation. This article presents some of the changes the EU
agreements involved for the Norwegian police. It shows a discrepancy between the policiary needs
and 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 the
way a sovereign nation state interacts with other states and their citizens. The article discusses
what it may imply when justifications turn out to be flawed due to weak foundational premises, or
because of later developments, but are still repeated or circumvented, or even used tautologically, to
promote a certain outcome. It finds that this may