From Ipa To Ilea

Abstract

The political contexts, goals and activities of two international police acad emies operated by the United States are described and evaluated. Conti nuities and changes between the International Police Academy (which operated in Washington, D.C., from 1963 to 1975) and the International Law Enforcement Academy (which opened in Budapest, Hungary, in 1995) are linked to four global developments: the changing global security agenda after the collapse of the Cold War, a lack of consistently advocated ideo logical alternatives to the rhetoric of democracy, the legitimation of inter national police work as the protection of national security and changes in the priorities and interests that guide U.S. foreign policy. In consequence, U.S. international police training has shifted from an emphasis on "politi cal policing" (which dominated thinking at IPA) to "functional policing" (which is the model underlying ILEA training), and has become part of the ongoing globalization of policing norms, strategies, tactics and opera tional rules.