New and old wars / Mary Kaldor.

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Kaldor, Mary

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TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2012.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages)ISBN:

0745663036
9780745663036
9780745676166
0745676162

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: New and old wars.LOC classification:

U240 .K11

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ebrary

Contents:

Introduction -- Old wars -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: a case study of a new war -- The politics of new wars -- The globalized war economy -- Towards a cosmopolitan approach -- The 'New War' in Iraq -- Governance, legitimacy and security.

Summary: 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 ar.

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"Organized violence in a global era"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ar.