New & Old Wars

by Kaldor, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780804756457
• ISBN10: 0804756457
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-17
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Mary Kaldor'sNew and Old Warshas fundamentally changed the way we understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as warthat is to say, war between states in which the aim is to inflict maximum violenceis becoming an anachronism. In its place is a new type of organized violence 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.

Author Biography

Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Old Wars	p. 15
Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Case Study of a New War	p. 33
The Politics of New Wars	p. 72
The Globalized War Economy	p. 95
Towards a Cosmopolitan Approach	p. 119
The 'New War' in Iraq	p. 150
Governance, Legitimacy and Security	p. 178
Notes	p. 195
Index	p. 219
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