This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens' lives.

First Published in 1998. Initially written in the period between 1942 and 44, with additional notes in the appendices of 1945, this volume looks at the areas of

Reconstructing eighty years of history, Political Policing examines the nature and consequences of U.S. police training in Brazil and other Latin American count

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy