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This chapter states that the crusade against crime — illegal drug trafficking in particular — has put the Caribbean settlers'lives in peril. In addition, the context of security has brooded an even greater sense of depression that the people of the region have had to face. This chapter also discusses the idea that security issues and threats will always coincide with the further advancement of globalization. The chapter also focuses on various organizations that take part in international security affairs. The chapter points out that the possibility of having a transnational policing government can only be accomplished by attaining a more cosmopolitan approach regarding the definition of police responsibilities. This chapter also stresses that peace and order is something that needs careful planning — something that cannot be achieved over a short period of time. The chapter also includes a list of interviewees as well as on-point details for policing the region.

This chapter looks at how bureaucrats shape the criminal justice relationship between Australia and Indonesia in the context of cooperation between their national police forces. Adapting Mathieu Deflem’s theory of bureaucratic autonomy, it argues that the close cooperation between the Australian and Indonesian police since the late 1990s is due to their relative independence from national politics and the professional subculture that they share. At the core of this police culture is a common policy interest in combating transnational crime. The chapter also suggests that other bureaucrats from the two countries may share professional subcultures that facilitate cooperation between them.

Starting with an account of Australia–Indonesia police cooperation after the 2002 Bali bombings, this chapter explains the purpose of the book (to identify the conditions that promote criminal justice cooperation between the two countries) and its argument (cooperation is more likely when a balance exists between political and policy interests). The chapter also discusses the interdisciplinary approach used in the book, looking first at the strengths and limitations of theories of international cooperation from international relations and transnational policing studies, and then describing how a regulatory perspective—which involves a pragmatic inquiry into how different actors influence the governance of a social problem—helps address the limitations. It concludes with an outline of the remaining chapters.

This chapter seeks to identify the conditions that promote criminal justice cooperation between Australia and Indonesia. It argues that there is a structural tension between political and policy interests at the heart of the cooperative relationship. This tension emerges from the two forces that define the cooperative relationship: the politicization of transnational problems and the perception of mutual interests. It is animated by the different categories of actors engaged in the relationship: bureaucrats, politicians, and private actors. The chapter also suggests that cooperation is more likely to occur when political and policy interests are in balance, such that there is sufficient political will to pursue the cooperation and sufficient scope to execute it.

This chapter reviews the study’s core findings regarding the drivers and influencers of criminal justice cooperation between Australia and Indonesia, and the scope for such cooperation to occur. It then bring these findings together to create a model of the Australia–Indonesia criminal justice relationship. The chapter also considers what the findings mean in practice by identifying a series of strategies for promoting bilateral cooperation to combat crime. These strategies draw out the deeper story of this book: the perpetual interplay of political and policy interests within transnational governance, and the importance of striking a balance between them to realize the elusive goal of international cooperation.

This chapter explores the genre’s treatment of the waning and intensification of sovereignty—whereby state control is being ceded to private concerns under the auspices of neoliberal reform. Paying attention to the global spread of crime fiction, it interrogates the contemporary genre’s explorations of the state’s legitimacy and jurisdictional limits. First, it considers how the subcontracting out of policing to private interests is dealt with by Peace and McNamee. Second, it examines the manner in which neoliberal reform impacts the low-paid women depicted in novels by Kirino and Manotti. Third, it asks what it means to be a leftist crime novel in an era where capitalism is inevitable and whether ‘capitalist noir’ is a product of this inevitability. Finally, it looks at the issue of borders and sovereignty in novels by Winslow and Miéville and questions what is at stake when we talk about the internationalization of crime fiction.

This chapter asks: what determines the scope for criminal justice cooperation between Australia and Indonesia? It demonstrates that the practice of reciprocity is central to the realization of cooperation and, critically, is practised differently by different actors. Politicians are more likely to pursue specific reciprocity—or what is otherwise called ‘tit-for-tat’—because they are inclined to view their (political) interests differently. Police and other bureaucrats are more likely to pursue diffuse reciprocity—which involves a rougher balancing of interests over the longer term—because they are inclined to see their (policy) interests as mutual. As it is less exacting and time-bound than specific reciprocity, a strategy of diffuse reciprocity increases the scope for cooperation. Based on this analysis, the chapter concludes that the greater the perception of mutual interests by actors engaged in the cooperative relationship, the greater the scope for cooperation.