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Urban insurgency in the twenty-first century : reduced military forces and the rise of conflict in cities
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King, Anthony (2022) Urban insurgency in the twenty-first century : reduced military forces and the rise of conflict in cities. International Affairs, 98 (2). pp. 609-629. doi:10.1093/ia/iiac007 ISSN 0020-5850.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac007
Abstract
In the last two decades, urban insurgencies have become a major concern for scholars and practitioners. It is widely assumed that because half the human population now live in cities in often appalling conditions, it is inevitable that conflict has migrated to cities, not least because urban areas offer would-be insurgents the best opportunity to evade state security forces and their advanced technologies. Demography and asymmetry have been all but universally accepted in the literature as the sole causes of urban insurgency. They are certainly important. Yet, scholars have overlooked a third vital factor: the size of state forces. In the twentieth century, urban insurgencies were common. However, because states commanded very large military forces at that time, insurgents found it very difficult to operate in urban areas. By contrast, as their forces have contracted in the twenty-first century, states have been unable to dominate urban areas, as they typically did in the twentieth century. Consequently, no-go areas have appeared inside cities providing insurgents with ideal bases from which to mount their attacks and to contest with state forces.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Insurgency -- History -- 21st century, Insurgency -- History -- 20th century, Urban warfare -- History -- 21st century, Urban warfare -- History -- 20th century, Armed forces -- Mobilization -- History -- 20th century, Armed forces -- Mobilization -- History -- 21st century | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Affairs | ||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0020-5850 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 7 March 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 98 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 609-629 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/ia/iiac007 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 January 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 April 2022 | ||||||
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