Cities, in a way, are read as places of extreme politics, where complex threats and responses to those emerge in dense clusters. The latter, as the book shows, stem from a variety of sources, including, war, intervention, ethnic divisions, criminal activities and structures of inequality. Specifically, it looks at the ways in which ‘urban capabilities’ are mobilised to ensure urban survival in insecure conditions. Mary Kaldor’s and Saskia Sassen’s new edited volume makes a rich contribution to the booming literature on urbanity in contexts of war and peace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance edited by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen.
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