A foreign policy for democratic policing

Abstract

Police institutions fundamentally affect the character of political development. Using comparative and historical materials, this paper analyzes what developed democratic countries can reasonably hope to achieve by way of reforming foreign police institutions so as to encourage and support democratic political development. After reviewing the sorts of world experience that contains relevant lessons, the paper discusses foreign police policies, respectively, that cannot succeed, that have some possibility of success, and that are almost certain to succeed. The paper concludes by outlining the dilemma that democratic development through police reform must confront, and specifies 11 principles that should guide democratic foreign police‐policy.