Publication

22 Jan 2014

This article examines the security challenges faced by megacities in the global South. The author argues that their slums, which are fertile breeding grounds for conflict and instability, are increasingly generating security challenges at every level of analysis, from the individual to the global.

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Author Peter Engelke, Magnus Nordenman
Series ISN Articles
Publisher International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
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