全球挑战的城市化趋势：以不对称战争为例

The Urbanizing of Global Challenges:The Case of Asymmetric War

本文围绕这样的论点展开:对于大部分通常被称为全球管治的挑战,城市是前沿阵地。作者通过对不对称战争的案例研究,探讨了全球挑战的城市化过程中所产生的矛盾冲突——其中最显著的是,强大军事力量在城市中所受到的限制,以及这使得弱势方不是单一的弱势而是情况更加复杂的方式。文章重点分析了孟买和加沙的案例,有助于我们理解战争一旦城市化之后所具有的极大的变异性以及不对称战争的多样性。文章结尾,作者论述了几种在案例中得到验证的更大格局的变化,如领土、权威、权利的重新划分。

The essay is framed by the proposition that cities are the frontier spaces for much of what is usually referred to as global governance challenges.It uses the case of asymmetric war to explore the contradictions that arise from this urbanizing-most significantly,the limits of superior military power when war moves to cities and the ways in which this makes powerlessness complex rather than elementary.The core of the paper focuses on Mumbai and Gaza as two sites that help us understand the enormous variability of war once it gets urbanized,and thus the multiplicity of types of asymmetric war.The essay concludes with a discussion about larger patterns we can see through the cases examined here,such as the repositioning of territory,authority and rights.