New and old wars organized violence in a global era

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kaldor, Mary, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity 2012.
Edición:Third edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623420806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface to the Third Edition; Abbreviations; 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: The New Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; 8: Governance, Legitimacy and Security; Afterword; Notes; Index