In this book Alice Hills discusses the interface between social order andsecurity. Though analysts and aid donors generally focus on security Hillsargues that t... » 

In this book Alice Hills discusses the interface between social order andsecurity. Though analysts and aid donors generally focus on security Hillsargues that the concept of order is much more meaningful for peoples lives.Focusing on the police as both providers of order and a measure of its successthe book shows that order depends more on what has gone before than onreconstruction efforts. From Kabul to Kigali and Kinshasa and in Baghdad andBasra with security increasingly ghettoized people make their own rules forsurvival. Policing Postconflict Cities provides a powerful critique of thefailure of liberal orthodoxy to understand the meaning of order. «