Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Karine CA?te-Boucher; Part I Theoretical Beginnings: Police; Transnational policing and the makings of a postmodern state; Law enforcement, justice and democracy in the transnational arena: reflections on the war on drugs; Policing, postmodernism and transnationalization; The global cops cometh: reflections on transnationalization, knowledge work and policing subculture. Part II: Field Studies in Transnational Policing: Reflections on the transnationalization of policing: the case of the RCMP and serial killers; European policing routes: an essay on transnationalization, policing and the information revolution; Police co-operation in the English Channel region, 1968-1996; Patrolling the new European (in)security field: organizational dilemmas and operational solutions for policing the internal borders of Europe. Part III Accountability for Transnational Policing: Accountability across the policing field: towards a general cartography of accountability for postmodern policing; The accountability of transnational policing institutions: the strange case of Interpol; Global law enforcement as a protection racket: some sceptical notes on transnational organized crime as an object of global governance; Transnational crime and transnational policing; Criminology and the transnational condition: a contribution to political sociology. Part IV Future Trajectories: Future trajectories: from detection to disruption: intelligence and the changing logics of police crime control in the United Kingdom (with Martin Innes); The governance of organized crime in Canada; Organizational pathologies in police intelligence systems: some contributions to the lexicon of intelligence-led policing; High policing in the security control society; Policing, intelligence theory and the new human security paradigm: some lessons from the field; Afterword; Bibliography; Name index.