Ebook: New and Old Wars
Author: Kaldor Mary
- Tags: World politics--1989-, Low-intensity conflicts (Military science), World politics, World politics -- 1989-
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Polity Press
- City: Cambridge England;Malden;MA
- Edition: 3rd ed
- Language: English
- epub
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.;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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