Cities at war : global insecurity and urban resistance /

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war and state building rarely conside...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kaldor, Mary (Editor), Sassen, Saskia (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2020].
Subjects:	Urban warfare > Developing countries > Case studies. Internal security > Developing countries > Case studies. Metropolitan areas > Developing countries > Strategic aspects. Urban violence > Developing countries > Case studies. Political violence > Developing countries > Case studies. Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) > Developing countries. Human security > Developing countries > Case studies. Sociology, Urban.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Global insecurity and urban capabilities / Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen
Bamako, Mali : Danger and the divided geography of international intervention / Ruben Andersson
Kabul : Bridging the gap between the state and the people / Florian Weigand
Baghdad : War and insecurity in the city / Ali Ali
A tale of two cities : Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, and insecurity at the US-Mexican Border / Mary Martin
Responding to, or perpetuating urban insecurity? Enclave making in Karachi / Sobia Ahmad Kaker
Violent conflict and urbanization in Eastern D.R. Congo : The city as a safe haven / Karen Büscher
Navigating security in Bogotá / Johannes Rieken, Efraín García-Sánchez, and Daniel Bear
"On the margins of all margins" : Explaining (in)security in Novi Pazar, Serbia / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Conclusion : Spaces for tactical urbanism / Saskia Sassen and Mary Kaldor.