TY - BOOK AU - McCoy, Alfred W. TI - Policing America's empire: the United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state SN - 9789715506281 AV - DS 685 .M137 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Quezon City PB - Ateneo de Manila University Press KW - Espionage, American KW - Philippines N1 - Originally published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009 N2 - Armed by its first informationrevolution. Washington pacified the Philippines after 1898 with pervasive policing. In the sixty years since its independence, the U.S. continued to use the country as a key laboratory for counterinsurgency. But techniques bred overseas could not be contained at this remote periphery of American power. From World War I to the War on Terror, new security methods have migrated homeward to honeycomb American society with spies and surveillance. ER -