ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the spatial effects of the war on terror in the Mediterranean basin. It explains the strategic and technological mutations that are enabling military units to perform in and shape complex civilian environments. The chapter argues that policization demonstrates traditional military actors seeking an improved capacity to perform in dynamic, fluid environments; a capacity intimately associated with policing assemblages that developed in turbulent urban spaces. By focusing on the transformation of NATO's military affairs and its transformed relationship with the maritime domain, the chapter demonstrates how the organization aims to become interoperable with other components of the assemblage securing the Mediterranean. The chapter describes the ways by which power is being distributed through things and people to reproduce urban assemblages of freedom on the maritime environment. To demonstrate this phenomenon, the chapter has outlined the manner by which seigniorial states and international organizations have initiated a policing assemblage on the Mediterranean.
