Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century

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MODERNIZING REPRESSION A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Edited by Christian G. Appy Other titles in the Series JAMES T. FI SHER, Dr. America:The Lives afThomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 DAN IEL HOROWITZ, Betty Friedan and the Making of"The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism TOM ENGELHARDT, The End 0IViclory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusiolling ofa Generation C HRI STIA N G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions:The Political Culture a/United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 H. BRUCE FRANKLIN, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies ROBERT D. DEA N, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making a/Cold War Foreign Policy LEE BERNSTEIN, TIle Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America DAVID C. ENG ERMAN, N ILS GILMAN, MARK H. HAEFELE, and MICHAEL E. L ATHAM, e d s., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War JONATHAN NAS HEL, Edward La nsdale's Cold War JAMES PEC K, Washington's China: The NatiDlwl Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins ofGlobalism EDW IN A. MARTINI, invisible Enemies: 711e American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 T ON Y SHAW, Hollywood's Cold War MAUREEN RYA N, The Other Side ofGrief 71le Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives ofthe Vietnam War DAVID H UNT, Vietnam's Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War PATRIC K HAGOPIAN, The Vietnal1l War in Al1Ierican Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics ofHealing JER EM Y KUZMAROV, TIle Myth ofthe Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs ROBERT SURBRUG JR., Beyond Vietnam: 711e Politics ofProtest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990 LARRY GRUBBS, Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s ROBERT A. JA COBS, The Dragon5 Tail:Americans Face the Atomic Age ANDREW J. FALK, Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960 JERRY LEMB CKE, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies ofBetrayal ANNA G. C READI CK, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit ofNormality in Postwar America KATHLEEN DO NO H UE, ed., Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America ROGER PEACE, A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign Modernizing Repression Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century JEREMY KUZMAROV University ofMassachusetts Press • Amherst and Boston Copyright © 2012 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 2012007996 ISBN 978-1-55849-917-1 (paper); 916-4 (hardcover) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Adobe Minion Pro with Formata display Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kuzmarov, Jeremy, 1979Modernizing repression: police training and nation building in the American century I Jeremy Kuzmarov. p. cm. - (Culture, politiCS, and the cold war) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55849-917-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) - ISBN 978-1-55849-916-4 (library cloth: alk. paper) 1. Police- Political aspects- History. 2. Police training- Developing countries- History. 3. Military planning- United States- History. 4. United States- Foreign relations- Developing countries. 5. Developing countries- Foreign relations- United States. 6. Imperialism. I. Title. HV7903.K892012 363.2'2- dc23 2012007996 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. To Ngosa and Chanda "This page intentionally left blank" ...