In simple Gramscian terms, the concept of the global police state calls attention to the breakdown of capitalist hegemony and the turn toward coercive domination on the part of the global ruling class, as more and more global economic activity becomes centered around the development and deployment of mechanisms of mass social control, repression and warfare. In short, the global police state is a project to attenuate the twin crises of overaccumulation and political legitimacy from within the global capitalist order.