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100 1 _aKaldor, Mary.
245 1 0 _aNew and old wars /
_cMary Kaldor.
250 _a3rd ed.
260 _aCambridge [England] ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bPolity Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 268 pages)
500 _a"Organized violence in a global era"--Cover
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _aMary 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.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
648 7 _aSince 1989
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650 0 _aLow-intensity conflicts (Military science)
650 0 _aWorld politics
_y1989-
650 7 _aHISTORY
_xModern
_y20th Century.
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650 7 _aLow-intensity conflicts (Military science)
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655 0 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKaldor, Mary.
_tNew and old wars.
_b3rd ed.
_dCambridge [England] ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2012
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