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New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era Paperback – 7 Sep 2012

by Mary Kaldor (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Polity Press; 3rd Revised edition edition (7 Sept. 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0745655637
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745655635
  • Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 2.2 x 22.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"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."
Martin van Creveld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"If you don’t read Mary Kaldor’s New and Old Wars, 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."
Ulrich Beck, University of Munich

"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."
Richard Falk, Princeton University

About the Author

Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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By Bob B on 16 May 2014
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Compare William Lind et al: The Changing Face of War - Into the Fourth Generation (Marine Corps Gazette October 1989), which I had previously read several years ago.
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In several respects, I found the historical perspective and analysis of Lind more illuminating.
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Presents an interesting argument and supports well with evidence, however Kaldor's work is heavily disputed I found it insightful
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This book was really helpful for my reasearch in my postgraduate studies.
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Amazon.com: 4.7 out of 5 stars 6 reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A book filled with facts, questions, and musings. 9 Jan. 2016
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I bought this book for an international studies course as an Indiana University student and it broadened my awareness about the deep rifts among peoples, culture, and society as a whole.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars 8 Aug. 2014
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Its interesting and useful for my course study
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Deeper Understanding of Low-Intensity Conflict and the War on Terror 25 Dec. 2015
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It’s not possible to make sense of the War on Terror and other so-called low intensity conflicts going on around the world without the analysis given in "New and Old Wars". It provides two key insights. First, the primary participants in these conflicts, with the exception of the Western powers, do not involve nation-states, and so the types of military and political resolution that the people of the USA are accustomed to are not possible, and second, civilians are the primary and intended victims and casualties of the fighting; civilian casualties are not just an unfortunate or collateral by-product. They can be combatants as well as victims: at what point does a jihadi sympathizer change from being an “innocent” civilian to a terrorist? Clearly, the current media treatment of “civilian” casualties needs refinement. The current non-differentiated approach is not especially helpful.

Insight into the ends, if they can be called that, of these conflicts is also clarified as essentially the exercise of power, or at least the attempt to, by those marginalized from the technologically advanced, capitalistic, liberal democracy global mainstream on the basis of ethnicity or religion. This can explain a lot, the role of terrorism and atrocity, for example, and carries the implication that a war may not the means to a political end, but rather the end in itself.

A question that the book leaves open is whether identity-based conflict and the resulting ethnic cleansing can be reversed once it is established. If not, Iraq and Syria as they were heretofore known are not recoverable.

"New and Old Wars" contains unsettling implications for the USA. Policy makers of both the left and right don’t seem to be able to grasp that they are not dealing with nation-states in these conflicts, with the result that the military and political approaches to them are in most cases exercises in futility. Another is whether it is possible that the growing disparity in wealth will create an environment in which “new wars” are endemic, and a constant supply of marginalized youth to fight them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What a good, honest 6 Mar. 2015
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What a good, honest, conscientious voice... The ONLY bad thing about the book is that everything she is warning about is already on its way to being true and there is no sign anyone in the wealthy countries understands, or cares. But I am very glad I read this book. For one thing, it gives a very solid basic understanding of the Bosinian War.
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