New & old wars

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New & old wars

Mary Kaldor

Polity, 2006

2nd ed

  • : pb

タイトル別名

New & old wars : organized violence in a global era

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-218) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has 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 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 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. 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. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to deal fully with the implications of 'the new wars' in the post 9-11 world. In a new chapter, Kaldor shows how old war thinking in Iraq has has greatly exacerbated what is, in many ways, the archetypal new war - with insurgency, chaos and the occupying forces' lack of direction prescient of a different kind of conflict now emerging in the 21st Century. Like its predecessor, the second edition of New and Old Wars will be essential reading for students of international relations, politics and conflict studies as well as to all those interested in the changing nature and prospect of warfare.

目次

* Contents * Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Old Wars * Chapter 3: Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Case Study of a New War * Chapter 4: The Politics of New Wars * Chapter 5: The Globalized War Economy * Chapter 6: Towards a Cosmopolitan Approach * Chapter 7: The 'New War' in Iraq * Chapter 8: Governance, Legitimacy and Security

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