{"product_id":"new-and-old-wars-organised-violence-in-a-global-era-hardback-9780745655628","title":"New and Old Wars; Organised Violence in a Global Era (Hardback) 9780745655628","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew and Old Wars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrganised Violence in a Global Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary Kaldor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745655628, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 September 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.2 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.539 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A timely and important book. Putting the so-called revolution in military affairs firmly to one side, Mary Kaldor has provided us with a window into the future of war.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin van Creveld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you don’t read Mary Kaldor’s \u003ci\u003eNew and Old Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, you won’t 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. Now revised and updated, it is the classical book on new wars.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eUlrich Beck, University of Munich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"More than any other book, the third edition of Mary Kaldor's brilliantly sustained enquiry into 'new wars' helps us grasp the complex terrain of political violence since the end of the Cold War. The richness and clarity of the overall presentation greatly strengthens Kaldor's stature as one of the most consistently imaginative and conceptually creative thinkers of our time on the central issues of global affairs.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Falk, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMary Kaldor's \u003ci\u003eNew and Old Wars\u003c\/i\u003e 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 are fought for particularistic  political goals using tactics of terror and destabilization that are  theoretically outlawed by the rules of modern warfare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaldor'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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis third  edition has been fully revised and updated. Kaldor has added an  afterword answering the critics of the New Wars argument and, in a new  chapter, Kaldor shows how old war thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq  greatly exacerbated what turned out to be, in many ways, archetypal new  wars - characterised by identity politics, a criminalised war economy  and civilians as the main victims. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike its predecessors, the third edition of \u003ci\u003eNew and Old Wars\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the Third Edition\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Old Wars\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Case Study of a New War\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Politics of New Wars\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Globalized War Economy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Towards a Cosmopolitan Approach\u003cbr\u003e 7. The ‘New Wars' in Iraq and Afghanistan\u003cbr\u003e 8. Governance, Legitimacy and Security\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407325393176,"sku":"9780745655628","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745655628.jpg?v=1784162174","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-and-old-wars-organised-violence-in-a-global-era-hardback-9780745655628","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}