ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book explains the critique of global policing rhetoric, and reflects upon the way in which global policing is politically and legally accountable. The study of global policing is interesting to political sociologists, social theorists, human geographers and so on, as much as it is to criminologists narrowly defined. Accountability for global policing is difficult partly because of the diversity and complexity of the policing field. Making global policing democratically accountable entails the emergence of a global polity of the demos, a demos which, at present, remains divided and ruled through the politics of fear and insecurity. The global commonwealth remains elusive and so actually existing global policing remains an object of vigorous criticism. In the end, it is no surprise that the formal powers of the international community to bring global policing issues to account have proved to be limited.
