Mary Kaldors "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.Kaldors 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 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 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.

New and Old Wars : Organized Violence in a Global Era

Politics & Social Sciences

Kaldor, Mary

Social Sciences

Stanford Univ. Press

The history of life on Earth is punctuated by half a dozen puzzling mass extinctions that constitute the benchmarks of the geologic time scale. These great breaks in the continuity of the fossil record have invited a wide array of scientific speculation. The most thoroughly studied of the mass extinctions occurred 65 million years ago when most life on Earth, incl. the dinosaurs, perished. Two rival hypotheses have emerged to account for this catastrophic event: the ''impactor'' hypothesis sees the earth bombarded with deadly meteorites, while the competing ''volcanist'' hypothesis evokes gigantic volcanic eruptions. This book examines the arguments & behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict over the competing hypotheses.

Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis

Science & Math

N/A.

Astronomy & Space Science

363p blue cloth, library stamp, a firm and clean copy

The Siege of Leningrad

History

Gouré, Leon

Russia

This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history - the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatan against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847.

Caste War of Yucatan

Reed, Nelson

Ancient Civilizations

French Radical Party

Larmour

Reference

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Dahrendorf, Ralf

The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The Tung-Chih Restoration, 1862-1874

The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-Chih Restoration, 1862-1874

Wright, Mary Clabaugh

World

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Samuel Karlin

Herbert Scarf

Kenneth J. Arrow

Mathematics

The Japanese Communist Party

Okubo Genji

George M. Beckmann

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The Church Reform of Peter the Great

Religion & Spirituality

Cracraft, Professor of History James

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