TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Network-Centric Violence, Critical Infrastructure and the Urbanization of Security
JO  - Security dialogue
A1  - Coward, M.
SP  - 399
EP  - 418
VL  - 40
IS  - 4-5
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 0967-0106
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010609342879
ID  - ref1
ER  -