![]() Urban security reaches out into the sites of foreign and imperial policy. The book traces the combined militarization of the police and “police-ization” of the military. Privatized enclaves and camp-like exposures proliferate in cities and suburbs, sealed off against the barbarians just beyond the gate. Supermax prisons inside the US mirror the CIA’s black sites overseas. The high-security borders that used to be found mainly at the boundaries between nation states are now reproduced at all scales within domestic space. Differences between the domestic and the foreign are eroded. Urban infrastructure is used not only by terrorists but by legitimate militaries to wage war. These methods are marked by a return to geographically focused and highly place-specific surveillance and targeting systems. He details the development of high tech military responses to the perceived urbanization of insurgency. ![]() Graham’s empirical focus is on the US, UK, and Israel during the past decade. ![]() ![]() Graham discusses the so-called boomerang effects by which security practices circulate between remote foreign peripheries and the northern homelands and between legitimate armies and their illegitimate enemies. Cities Under Siege is a fascinating and depressing overview of the ongoing militarization of urban space and the reorientation of the military toward urban warfare. ![]()
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