Anti-terrorism after 9/11 as legitimization of the new global policing

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira Júnior, Geraldo Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/11114
• topic: United States; Foreign policy; Antiterrorism; World policing; Estados Unidos; Política externa; Antiterrorismo; Policiamento global

This article discusses the meaning of the expression “world police”, constantly used by the critics of American imperialism. As from the 1970’s the expression acquires other meanings, as the United States starts to employ new procedures to exercise its police powers in the context of the global “war on drugs.” Since the September 11 2001 attacks, the new international policing became more frequent and more aggressive, with the so-called extraordinary renditions of the “war on terror.” The overall purpose of this text is to show that the problem of international policing goes beyond systemic analysis. It is also emphasized that, although the practices analyzed have been largely rejected in the past, they are now often seen as legitimate when justified by the discourse of combating international terrorism.