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Part I: Introduction 1. Processes of convergence and divergence in the policy formulation of policing strategies for European metropolises (Elke Devroe, Adam Edwards, Paul Ponsaers) 2.  European National Police Systems and Metropolitan Realities (Elke Devroe and Paul Ponsaers) Part II: Convergence: The Dominance of National States in Agenda Setting 3. FranceGoverning Metropolises: The false pretenses of metropolisation (Jacques de Maillard and Christian Mouhanna) 4. PortugalUrban Security Governance in Portugal: Key-elements and challenges (Carla Cardoso and Josefina Castro) 5. FinlandPolicing regime in transition in the Nordic countries: Some critical notes from the Nordic reality (Sirpa Virta and Jari Taponen) 6. SloveniaConvergence and Diversity of Policing in Post Socialist Countries and its Reflection to Local Policing: The case of Slovenia (Maja Modic, Branko Lobnikar, Bernarda Tominc, Andrej Sotlar, and Gorazd Meško) Part III: Divergence: Active City-Regions pursuing their own policing agendas 7. ItalyUrban Policing in Italy: Some reflections in a comparative perspective (Rossella Selmini)Policing and Urban Control in Rome and Milan: A view from the southern edge of Europe (Marco Calaresu and Rossella Selmini) 8. United KingdomMetropolitan Policing Agendas in Britain: Divergent Tendencies in a Fragmenting State? (Adam Edwards, Sophie Chambers, Nick Fyffe, Alistair Henry) 9. GermanyPolicing metropolises in a system of cooperative federalism: Berlin as the German capital and a City State compared to Cologne as the biggest city in North Rhine-Westphalia (Hartmut Aden and Berhard Frevel) 10. BelgiumPolicing Antwerp and Brussels: Two of a kind? (Evelien De Pauw and Marleen Easton) 11. The NetherlandsLocal strategies for global challenges: Comparing policing agendas in Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Ruth Prins and Elke Devroe) Part IV: Conclusion 12. The European World of Metropolitan Policing: Interpreting patterns of governance, policy and politics (Adam Edwards, Elke Devroe, Paul Ponsaers)