Pre‐publication version To cite this article: Rokem, J. et al., Interventions in urban geopolitics, Political Geography (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.polgeo.2017.04.004 1 Interventions in Urban Geopolitics 1 Rokem, J. and Fregonese, S.; 2 Ramadan, A. and Pascucci, E.A.; Rosen, G. and Charney, I.; Paasche, T.F. and Sidaway, J. D. Introduction Jonathan Rokem and Sara Fregonese These interventions in urban geopolitics recognise that it is timely to develop a research agenda that reinforces, broadens and regenerates this field, bridging the disciplines of political geography, urban studies, planning and architecture in renewed ways. Tracing the “changing cartography of danger” (Dalby, 2010: 285) in the post‐ 9‐11 world, critical geopolitics have posited a reformulation of geopolitics “from a state‐towards a city‐centric focus” (Agnew, 2003: 10) where micro‐sites and urban battlefields ought to be given as much thought as more conventional macro‐ military reasoning (Dalby, 2010). These ideas have shaped much of what we frame here as an emerging ‘urban geopolitical turn’ (Graham, 2004a, 2010; Sidaway, 2009; Fregonese, 2009, 2012; Yacobi, 2009; Rokem & Boano, In Press). 1 Interventions editors and authors: Corresponding author and editor: Dr. Jonathan Rokem, University College London, UK. (j.rokem@ucl.ac.uk) Co‐author and editor: Dr. Sara Fregonese, University of Birmingham, UK. 2 Contributing authors: Dr. Adam Ramadan, University of Birmingham, UK and Dr. Elisa Pascucci, University of Tampere, Finland. Dr. Gillad Rosen, Hebrew University of Jeruaslem, Israel and Dr. Igal Charney, University of Haifa, Israel. Dr. Till F. Paasche, Soran University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq and Prof. James D. Sidaway, National University of Singapore.