TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaldor,Mary
TI  - New and old wars
SN  - 0745663036
AV  - U240 .K11
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge [England], Malden, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
KW  - World politics
KW  - 1989-
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Modern
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Organized violence in a global era"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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