Mary Kaldor is professor of global governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. She is the coeditor of The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge for Global Governance (Columbia, 2013, with Joseph Stiglitz) and the author of New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (2012, third edition) and Global Security Cultures (2018) among other works.Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee for Global Thought at Columbia University. She is the author of many books, including Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014), The Global City (2001, second edition), and Cities in a World Economy (2018, fifth edition).

Conflict, armed violence, and military interventions are brutal facts of life in cities throughout the world. While some commentators proclaim that cities can take up governance where states fail, or even that mayors might rule the world, reality is more complex. This book is a crucial guide to the reality of urban insecurity—and urban capabilities to cope with insecurity. Its cases come mainly from less rich countries with more or less manifest wars—but the issues considered matter everywhere.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Insecurity and Urban Capabilities, by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen1. Bamako, Mali: Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention, by Ruben Andersson2. Kabul: Bridging the Gap Between the State and the People, by Florian Weigand3. Baghdad: War and Insecurity in the City, by Ali Ali4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Insecurity at the U.S.–Mexico Border, by Mary Martin5. Responding to, or Perpetuating, Urban Insecurity? Enclave-Making in Karachi, by Sobia Ahmad Kaker6. Violent Conflict and Urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The City as a Safe Haven, by Karen Büscher7. Navigating Security in Bogotá, by Johannes Rieken, Efraín García-Sánchez, and Daniel Bear8. “On the Margins of All Margins”: Explaining (In)Security in Novi Pazar, Serbia, by Vesna Bojicic-DzelilovicConclusion: Spaces for Tactical Urbanism, by Saskia Sassen and Mary KaldorContributorsIndex

Mary Kaldor is professor of global governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. She is the coeditor of The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge for Global Governance (Columbia, 2013, with Joseph Stiglitz) and the author of New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (2012, third edition) and Global Security Cultures (2018) among other works.Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee for Global Thought at Columbia University. She is the author of many books, including Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014), The Global City (2001, second edition), and Cities in a World Economy (2018, fifth edition).

Conflict, armed violence, and military interventions are brutal facts of life in cities throughout the world. While some commentators proclaim that cities can take up governance where states fail, or even that mayors might rule the world, reality is more complex. This book is a crucial guide to the reality of urban insecurity—and urban capabilities to cope with insecurity. Its cases come mainly from less rich countries with more or less manifest wars—but the issues considered matter everywhere.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Insecurity and Urban Capabilities, by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen1. Bamako, Mali: Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention, by Ruben Andersson2. Kabul: Bridging the Gap Between the State and the People, by Florian Weigand3. Baghdad: War and Insecurity in the City, by Ali Ali4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Insecurity at the U.S.–Mexico Border, by Mary Martin5. Responding to, or Perpetuating, Urban Insecurity? Enclave-Making in Karachi, by Sobia Ahmad Kaker6. Violent Conflict and Urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The City as a Safe Haven, by Karen Büscher7. Navigating Security in Bogotá, by Johannes Rieken, Efraín García-Sánchez, and Daniel Bear8. “On the Margins of All Margins”: Explaining (In)Security in Novi Pazar, Serbia, by Vesna Bojicic-DzelilovicConclusion: Spaces for Tactical Urbanism, by Saskia Sassen and Mary KaldorContributorsIndex

Mary Kaldor is professor of global governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. She is the coeditor of The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge for Global Governance (Columbia, 2013, with Joseph Stiglitz) and the author of New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (2012, third edition) and Global Security Cultures (2018) among other works.Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee for Global Thought at Columbia University. She is the author of many books, including Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014), The Global City (2001, second edition), and Cities in a World Economy (2018, fifth edition).

Conflict, armed violence, and military interventions are brutal facts of life in cities throughout the world. While some commentators proclaim that cities can take up governance where states fail, or even that mayors might rule the world, reality is more complex. This book is a crucial guide to the reality of urban insecurity—and urban capabilities to cope with insecurity. Its cases come mainly from less rich countries with more or less manifest wars—but the issues considered matter everywhere.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Insecurity and Urban Capabilities, by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen1. Bamako, Mali: Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention, by Ruben Andersson2. Kabul: Bridging the Gap Between the State and the People, by Florian Weigand3. Baghdad: War and Insecurity in the City, by Ali Ali4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Insecurity at the U.S.–Mexico Border, by Mary Martin5. Responding to, or Perpetuating, Urban Insecurity? Enclave-Making in Karachi, by Sobia Ahmad Kaker6. Violent Conflict and Urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The City as a Safe Haven, by Karen Büscher7. Navigating Security in Bogotá, by Johannes Rieken, Efraín García-Sánchez, and Daniel Bear8. “On the Margins of All Margins”: Explaining (In)Security in Novi Pazar, Serbia, by Vesna Bojicic-DzelilovicConclusion: Spaces for Tactical Urbanism, by Saskia Sassen and Mary KaldorContributorsIndex