Abstract
This dissertation project assesses the economic, political, and cultural aftermath of foreign occupation and colonization of indigenous societies aided by global policing. Global policing has been largely promoted by advocates in the name of human rights, democracy, freedom and support for the rule of law. Critical scholarship suggests that global policing practices would be better understood as an endorsement and safeguard of global hegemony furthering the economic, political, and cultural interests and ideologies of ruling groups. This study examines the purposes of global policing and its consequences. In particular, the study seeks to comprehend how global policing in its different phases has been implicated in deterring democracy around the world in part through displacing indigenous justice practices, militarizing civil society, and fostering development models that financially benefit wealthy nations and groups at the expense of the poor. The project considers whether and how global policing might be reconceptualized to fully comprehend its founding aspirations through revitalized commitments to rights, cultural difference, and democracy.