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The history of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe is to a large extent a history of war and conflict. The actual police organization is the result of severe problematic historical circumstances. To state it more generally, the organization of the police in Central and Eastern Europe is an epiphenomenon of geopolitical events. This volume contains massive information concerning this relation in the region under study. It tells an incredible story, in which a reader is prepared to make the synthesis of decades of police history. A transversal reading of the contributions in this volume starts with, on the one hand, the evolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and on the other that of Russian Empire; two huge historical centers of power. But also the disintegration of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia is an important factor to comprehend the actual police landscape in Central and Eastern Europe. This very informative book gives us insight in a reality too often neglected.
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Also the first organized police forces in Germany date back to the early nineteenth century, when the idea of Napoleon, to establish a gendarmerie nationale in France, has been adopted by some German Kingdoms, the authors in this book, Thomas Feltes, Uwe Marquardt, and Stefan Schwarz, remind us.
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Ponsaers, P. (2013). Policing in Central and Eastern Europe as an Epiphenomenon of Geopolitical Events. In: Meško, G., Fields, C., Lobnikar, B., Sotlar, A. (eds) Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6720-5_2
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