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Stuart Schrader

Stuart Schrader is Associate Research Professor at the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (2019).

Articles

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader

How the Washington-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Stuart Schrader

During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet the United States ended up with its own carceral state. 

Stuart Schrader

Territory is not as important as it used to be.

Stuart Schrader

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