New and old wars : organized violence in a global era

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Label

New and old wars : organized violence in a global era

Title remainder

organized violence in a global era

Statement of responsibility

Mary Kaldor

Title variation

New & old wars

Creator

• Kaldor, Mary

Subject

• World politics
• Geschichte 1989-1999
• Since 1989
• World politics -- 1989-
• Bewaffneter Konflikt
• Krieg
• Politique mondiale -- 1989-
• Bewaffneter Konflikt
• Bürgerkrieg
• Bürgerkrieg
• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
• Guerre d'usure
• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
• Krieg
• Politique mondiale - 1989-

Language

eng

Summary

• "In this analysis, Mary Kaldor argues that, in the context of globalization, 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, which she calls 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 are fought for particularistic political goals using tactics of terror and destabilization that are theoretically outlawed by the rules of modern warfare. An informal criminalized economy is built into the functioning of the new wars."--Jacket
• "Political leaders and international institutions have been helpless in face of the spread of these wars mainly because they have not come to terms with their logic; the new wars are treated either as old wars or else as anarchy 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. This approach also has implications for the reconstruction of civil society, political institutions, and economic and social relations."--Jacket
• "New and Old Wars will be of the greatest interest to students of international relations, politics and political thought as well as to all those interested in the changing nature and prospect of warfare."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

355.0215

Index

index present

LC call number

U240

LC item number

.K34 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography