Books and Edited Collections
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention. London: Routledge. 2015. with Jann Bachmann and Carolyn Holmqvist, Eds
The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counterterrorism. Nelson: University of British Columbia Press. 2011; 2012.
Exceptional Measures for Exceptional Times? The State of Security Post 9/11. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, 2007.
Selected Papers
“It felt very much like how the RCMP has always controlled us, walked not with us, but in control of us”: Documenting and learning from a case of Indigenous engagement with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Canadian Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming (with Lou Pingeot and Cleo Nguyen)
“Policing the ‘other’ at home and abroad: Canadian International Police Deployments and the Production of Difference,” in Imperial Entanglements of Policing, Eds. Julian Go and Stuart Schrader. Duke University Press. 2026. (with Lou Pingeot)
“Inclusive Militarism? Canada’s feminist policy making in security and defence. International Journal 80.4: 564-581. 2025 (with Nicole Wegner); winner of the 2025 Marcel Cadieux prize for best article on Canadian foreign policy
“Feminist Foreign Policy as a Case of Governance Feminism: Neoliberalism, Militarism and Women as ‘Agents of Change.’” International Studies Review, 27.1. 2025 (with Nicole Wegner)
“The Recursive Coloniality of Global Policing: Challenging the analytical bifurcation between the Global South and the Global North.” In Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South 2025. (2nd Edition), Eds. Roxana Cavalcanti, David Fonseca, Valeria Vegh Weis, Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg and John Scott. 2025 (with Lou Pingeot).
“Assemblages.” In Handbook on International Political Sociology, eds. Stacie Goddard, George Lawson and Ole Jacob Sending. Oxford University Press. 2024. With Carolyn Holmqvist.
“Our State/Ourselves: Discourses on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Police Peacekeeping.” International Peacekeeping, 575-598. 2024. with N. Lange and C. McRorie. 2024.
“Recentring the coloniality of global policing,” Third World Quarterly 43(10), 2488–2508, 2022 (with Lou Pingeot).
“Discipline and Punish: Gendered Dimensions of Violence in Extractive Development.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 31.1: 24-57. 2019, with Kalowatie Deonandan.
“Celebrity Powers and Powers of War: The rise of the COINdinistas in American Popular Media,” Critical Military Studies 4.3 2017: 244-263.
“Settler Colonialism and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission of Canada’s Mounties: Re-thinking Police Power in International Relations,” International Journal 73.1, 2018: 111-128, with K. Schreiner.
“Biometrics, Racism, and Counterinsurgency in the Colonial Present” in Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience, and the ‘Local Turn’ in Counterinsurgent Warfare, edited by Louise Wiuff Moe and Markus-Michael Muller. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
“The Police Power in Counterinsurgencies: Discretion, Patrolling, and Evidence.” In War, Police, and Assemblages of Intervention. London: Routledge, 2015.
“Grey’s Anatomy Goes South: Global racism and suspect identities in the colonial present,” Canadian Journal of Sociology 38.4: 487-508. https://www.jstor.org/stable/canajsocicahican.38.4.465.
“Hybrid Warfare and its Metaphors,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights 3.2, 2012: 225-247. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hum/summary/v003/3.2.bell.html.
“Insurgency and the Allegory of Medical Intervention: Why Metaphors Matter,” International Political Sociology 6.1. Forum on the International Political Sociology of Health and Medicine.
“Civilianising Warfare: Ways of War and Peace in Modern Counterinsurgency” Journal of International Relations and Development 14.3: 2011, 309-332. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jird/journal/v14/n3/abs/jird201016a.html.
“From Terrorism to Insurgency: Re- mapping the Post-Interventionary Security Terrain,” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 4.4, 2010: 371-390. with Brad Evans.
“Fighting the War and Winning the Peace: Three Critiques of the War in Afghanistan,” Critical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy. Eds. J.M. Beier and L. Wylie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Colleen Bell, PhD 