ABSTRACT
Political activists are increasingly confronting world leaders temporarily gathered in venues hosting transnational summits, for example at European Union summits, G8 and WTO meetings and others. The empirical focus in this chapter is a comparison between the two protest campaigns, and the police handling of them, at European Union Summit meetings in Gothenburg in June 2001 and Copenhagen in December 2002. The police campaigns mobilized to handle protest events in conjunction with these two meetings offer us radically different political policing approaches to dealing with contentious politics.
