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X-WR-CALNAME:The Trend Toward Militarization: How IOs Influence Internation
 al Police Reform
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DESCRIPTION:About the event: In the wake of conflict and the rise of author
 itarian populist movements\, national police are becoming more militarized
  across the globe. This is in spite of the consolidation of international 
 norms for civilian policing. That state police are more militarized is not
  necessarily surprising since states are fundamentally concerned with dome
 stic order. Like states\, international organizations (IOs) are concerned 
 with domestic security and often participate in domestic police reforms as
  a result. Do IO police reforms operate as a check on global trends toward
  police militarization? I argue that IOs\, though they make determined att
 empts to institute civilian and democratic policing norms\, often reinforc
 e militarized policing. This occurs through institutional and individual m
 echanisms. First\, IOs view order as a necessary condition for democratic 
 or human rights-based policing. Second\, individual bureaucrats reinforce 
 this trend because they see insecure spaces as inherently prone to violenc
 e and recommend more militarized policing in response. I evaluate the theo
 ry using archival evidence from two United Nations (UN) policing missions 
 in Namibia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and interviews with IO policing expe
 rts. I find that police militarization is a persistent problem that lacks 
 clear reform solutions\, even when implemented by a well-respected IO like
  the UN.\n\nAbout the speaker: Before coming to CISAC\, Maya was a Neubaue
 r Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago where 
 she received her Ph.D. in Political Science in July\, 2025. Maya holds an 
 M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and B.A. in Globa
 l and International Studies and Humanities from the University of Kansas. 
 Maya's research combines critical and mainstream approaches to explore the
  legacies of empire in conflict dynamics and state-building. Specifically\
 , she is interested in how international organizations and private firms c
 ollaborate with states for international security sector reforms in and ou
 tside of post-conflict contexts.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, William J. Perry Conference Room
SUMMARY:The Trend Toward Militarization: How IOs Influence International Po
 lice Reform
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-trend-toward-militariza
 tion-how-ios-influence-international-police-reform
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