All proposals should be submitted by September 6th, 2024.
Throughout history, borders have always been fluid and permeable to the actions of humanity. In an increasingly global world, where the circulation of people, goods, capital, knowledge, and practices transcend territorial borders and where the creation of international cooperation networks intensifies, transnational approaches to history have become increasingly relevant. Regarding police and security forces, the very formulation of a professional police force, designed throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, is the result of this continuous circulatory movement of ideas and technologies that transformed the operating models of police institutions. On the other hand, and faced with the evolution of international relations and the diversification and complexity of dangers and threats, police forces found themselves forced to assume new forms of extra border action, combining efforts and articulating organizational, technological, and doctrinal responses, seeking ways of interaction and joint cooperation with similar forces.
Today, at a time when the lines that separate internal and external security are blurred, confusing the capacities and operating modes of different State actors, it would be worth taking a look back into the past to analyse this complex web of organizations, knowledge, experiences, doctrines, and practices that have interconnected the different security forces, at a European, Atlantic, or even global level. Through a historical perspective, but looking for a collaborative, interdisciplinary and international approach, the VI International Congress on Police History seeks to reflect and debate issues around transnational circulations, influences, and forms of police cooperation over time.
All proposals should be submitted by September 6th, 2024.