@article{ref1,
title="Network-Centric Violence, Critical Infrastructure and the Urbanization of Security",
journal="Security dialogue",
year="2009",
author="Coward, M.",
volume="40",
number="4-5",
pages="399-418",
abstract="This article addresses the question of whether contemporary global urbanization is characterized by a distinctive relationship between the city and warfare. In particular, it examines the specific way in which two particular forms of warfare — so-called Al-Qaeda terrorism and US tactics in Iraq — target urban infrastructure. I argue that infrastructure is targeted because it is a constitutive feature of contemporary urban life. Metropolitan life is marked by its constitutive relation to urban infrastructure. The article thus suggests that this targeting of infrastructure provides a lens through which to investigate some of the central questions posed by the contemporary urbanization of security.<p />",
language="",
issn="0967-0106",
doi="10.1177/0967010609342879",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010609342879"
}