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New and Old Wars - Organised Violence in a Global Era (Electronic book text, 3rd Revised edition)
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New and Old Wars - Organised Violence in a Global Era (Electronic book text, 3rd Revised edition)
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Mary Kaldor's "New and Old Wars" has fundamentally changed the way
both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and
conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book
has shown that what we think of as war - that is to say, war
between states in which the aim is to inflict maximum violence - is
becoming an anachronism. In its place is a new type of organized
violence or 'new wars', which could be described as a mixture of
war, organized crime and massive violations of human rights. The
actors are both global and local, public and private. The wars are
fought for particularistic political goals using tactics of terror
and destabilization that are theoretically outlawed by the rules of
modern warfare. Kaldor's analysis offers a basis for a cosmopolitan
political response to these wars, in which the monopoly of
legitimate organized violence is reconstructed on a transnational
basis and international peacekeeping is reconceptualized as
cosmopolitan law enforcement. This approach also has implications
for the reconstruction of civil society, political institutions,
and economic and social relations. This third edition has been
fully revised and updated. Kaldor has added an afterword answering
the critics of the New Wars argument and, in a new chapter, Kaldor
shows how old war thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq greatly
exacerbated what turned out to be, in many ways, archetypal new
wars - characterised by identity politics, a criminalised war
economy and civilians as the main victims. Like its predecessors,
the third edition of "New and Old Wars" will be essential reading
for students of international relations, politics and conflict
studies as well as to all those interested in the changing nature
and prospect of warfare.
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