- New edition of groundbreaking and hugely successful text which analyses war in the context of globalization.
- Includes a new chapter on the Iraq war as well as a new foreword and additional material on the Balkans.
- Mary Kaldor is an internationally renowned author and her books are widely adopted worldwide.
- In the current climate of insecurity and conflict, this book is more pertinent than ever.
- This book changes the way we think about war in a global context in the 21st century.
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If you dont read Mary Kaldors New Old Wars you wont understand the world of violence we live in. And you will miss the only way out: the perspective of a cosmopolitan realpolitik that Kaldor opens up and paints in detail in her highly sophisticated and original analysis. It is the classical book on new wars.
1. Introduction.
2. Old Wars.
3. Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Case Study of a New War.
4. The Politics of New Wars.
5. The Globalized War Economy.
6. Towards a Cosmopolitan Approach.
7. Governance, Legitimacy and Security.
Notes.
Index.
Mary Kaldor is Programme Director at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics.
