Mary Kaldor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 184818 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mary Kaldor |
| PRENOMES | Mary |
| SOBRENOME | Kaldor |
| ASSINATURA | KALDOR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7283-0171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 359 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ukraine, Russia and new wars
This article examines the relevance of the Russo-Ukrainian War to the new wars analysis. The Russo-Ukrainian War is formally a conventional war fought by states for the political control of territory (i.e., an ‘old war’), but it is also a conflagration that emerges out of the organized violence and instabilities of the post-Cold War world, and involves, in the form of Russia, a consummate ‘new war’ actor. What makes the Russo-Ukrainian War distin…
Julian Perry Robinson
Introduction to Part III
Commentary on Kögler
This essay provides supplementary evidence for Kögler’s thesis. It argues that Putin will have ‘won’ if he succeeds in reducing Ukrainian society to a chaotic, fragmented, violent, long-term social condition that can be characterised as a ‘new war’. The essay describes the combination of the ‘political marketplace’ and exclusivist identity politics typical of new wars and how they apply to Putin’s Russia. It concludes with a proposal for negotiat…
Interview
In this interview, Mary Kaldor and Helmut K. Anheier examine the state of Eastern Europe thirty years after the fall of communism; they explore the differences between old wars and new wars, the relevance of Clausewitz in the field of international relations today, the problem of methodological nationalism, and what the social sciences mean today. They also talk about the impact of neoliberalism, the state of democracy, and the role of civil soci…
Local agreements - an introduction to the special issue
This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on local agreements in intractable conflicts. By ‘local’, we refer to any type of agreement that covers a geographical area less than the entire national territory although the issues and actors may be national, regional, international as well as local. Our main finding is that local agreements are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflict, owing to the fragmented decentred character of con…
Introduction
This article is the introduction to a special issue on ‘Civicness in Conflict’. Civicness is defined in three ways: (i) as a logic of public authority, that speaks to ideas of rights-based, inclusive rather than exclusive political orders; (ii) as a form of behaviour, acting ‘as if’ such a logic existed; and (iii) as a political position, articulated against uncivic politics, in particular the combination of endemic corruption, ethnic or religiou…
Global Civil Society
Civil society is no longer confined to the borders of the territorial state. The end of the Cold War and growing global interconnectedness have undermined the territorial distinction between &s;civil&s; and &s;uncivil&s; societies, between the &s;democratic&s; West and the &s;non-democratic&s; East and South, and have called into question the traditional centralized war-making state. Both global capitalism and global civil society have contribute…
Gender and New Wars
This brief introduction to the special collection outlines the main features of new wars and discusses some of the conceptual thinking around gender in the context of new wars and how it relates to international frameworks, such as UN Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. It considers in particular different forms of women’s participation and constructions of masculinities in new wars. This introduction argues that the binary…
Cities at War
Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. They develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence.
Identity formation and the political marketplace
This article is an introduction to a special issue that focusses on the relationship between the political marketplace, identity politics and organised violence. The political marketplace refers to an extreme form of neo-liberalism in which political relations are monetised. The introduction makes the argument that political marketplaces are associated with fragmented exclusive transnational identities that are constructed through contemporary vi…
The Resurgence of Singular Identities
This article is a reflection on Sen's book Identity and Violence and its relevance in explaining the rise of sectarian narratives world-wide. It makes three arguments. First what Sen calls “singular” or “unidimensional” identities, which tend to be binary or “either/or” identities, are not merely a determinant of violence, as Sen argues, but also an outcome of violence setting in motion a self-reinforcing logic. Second the rise of singular identi…
Cycles in World Politics
This article argues that we are living through a period when political institutions are out of step with dramatic, economic and social changes. In similar periods in the past, war has often played a key restructuring role. But contemporary wars are much less likely to achieve this. The main agents of change are social movements and new forms of communication. The article concludes that we need new forms of global governance and some critical reth…
Subterranean Politics in Europe
Subterranean Politics in Europe
Conclusion
This book describes the ways in which the European crisis is analysed and perceived by a range of newly emerging political actors. As outlined in the introduction, today’s political activists view the crisis as a political one. They are disillusioned with democracy as it currently practised; they are the Internet generation; and, while many of them feel European in a cultural sense, Europe as a political project is ‘invisible’
Conclusion
The search for lasting peace
Journal Article The search for lasting peace: critical perspectives on gender-responsive human security. Edited by Rosalind Boyd Get access The search for lasting peace: critical perspectives on gender-responsive human security. Edited by Rosalind Boyd. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2014. 216pp. £60.00. ISBN: 978 1 47242 096 1. Available as e-book. Mary Kaldor Mary Kaldor 1London School of Economics and Political Science, London S…
Missing the Point on Hard and Soft Power
This article is a critique of two reports of parliamentary inquiries, into intervention and soft power, respectively. Neither report includes any discussion of Britain's involvement in and culpability for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite a more radical approach taken by the report on soft power, the article argues that the failure to address recent wars is symptomatic of a deeper and more dangerous inability to face up to profound and da…
The Quest for Security
In Defence of New Wars
This article reviews the literature on ‘new wars’. It argues that ‘new wars’ should be understood not as an empirical category but rather as a way of elucidating the logic of contemporary war that can offer both a research strategy and a guide to policy. It addresses four components of the debate: whether new wars are ‘new’; whether new wars are war or crime; whether the data supports the claims about new wars; and whether new wars are ‘post-Clau…
Identity and War
This article makes two arguments. First, sectarian identity (ethnic, tribal or religious) is an outcome of war rather than a cause of war, even though such identities make (selective) use of memory. The implication of this proposition is that war should be interpreted less as an external contest of will between two sides but rather as a one‐sided and/or parallel effort to construct unidimensional political identities as a basis for power. Power d…
Quest for Security
"The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising out of the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity. While earlier studies have touched on how globalization has increased economic insecurity and how geopolitical …
The ‘Bubbling Up’ of Subterranean Politics in Europe
This article presents the findings of a collaborative research project involving seven field teams across Europe investigating a range of new political phenomena termed ‘subterranean politics’. The article argues that the social mobilizations and collective activities in 2011 and 2012 were probably less joined up, more heterogeneous, and, perhaps, even, smaller, than similar phenomena during the last decade, but what was striking was their ‘reson…
Introducing global civil society
The words ‘global’ and ‘civil society’ have become commonplace during the last decade. Yet what they mean and how they come together are subject to widely differing interpretations. For some, global civil society refers to the protestors in Seattle and Prague or Greenpeace’s actions against transnational corporations: in other words, a counterweight to global capitalism. For others, the words have something to do with the infrastructure that is n…
New and old wars
"In this analysis, Mary Kaldor argues that, in the context of globalization, 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, which she calls 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…
Nationalism and Globalisation
This article argues that the current wave of nationalism has to be understood as a response to globalisation and not as evidence for the enduring nature of the national idea, as Smith suggests. It defends the modernist paradigm as a way of explaining nationalism and emphasises the role of war in the construction of nationalism. It puts forward an explanation for the current wave of nationalism in terms of changes in the division of labour, in com…
The idea of global civil society
The idea of global civil society Get access Mary Kaldor Mary Kaldor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 3, May 2003, Pages 583–593, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00324 Published: 23 May 2003
The Baroque Arsenal
The ‘Bubbling Up’ of Subterranean Politics in Europe
This article presents the findings of a collaborative research project involving seven field teams across Europe investigating a range of new political phenomena termed ‘subterranean politics’. The article argues that the social mobilizations and collective activities in 2011 and 2012 were probably less joined up, more heterogeneous, and, perhaps, even, smaller, than similar phenomena during the last decade, but what was striking was their ‘reson…
Civilising' Globalisation? The Implications of the `Battle in Seattle
Human security
This article examines the potential of human security as a narrative and operational frame for the European Union's external relations. Human security is about the security of individuals and communities and it links physical and material security—‘freedom from fear’, and ‘freedom from want’. The article addresses both the lexis (language) and praxis (practice)of human security in relation to the EU. Much of the language currently used in EU exte…
Old Wars, Cold Wars, New Wars, and the War on Terror
The military in development
Democratization in central and east European countries
The misery of Eastern Europe's small nations .. causes such great suspicion and irritation in Western European observers. [This] leads many people to conclude that the entire region.. .should be abandoned to its fate...This region's inability to consolidate itself is not due to its inherently barbarian nature, but to a series of unfortunate historical processes which squeezed it off the main course of European consolidation...We should not give u…
American power
This article argues that the Bush strategy of ‘spectacle war’ is caught in an earlier Cold War paradigm primarily aimed at influencing American public opinion and that it fails to take into account the reality of the current global context, especially with regard to changes in the nature of sovereignty and in the role of military force. The United States, in its current posture, has the capability to be very destructive but is much less able to d…
Global Transformations and New Conflicts
Summaries The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post?Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the reverse of state and nation?building. The political economy of the ‘new wars’ involves a mix of state and non?state, national and international violence. It creates vicious cycles, reinforcing the decline in the formal sector, br…
A cosmopolitan response to new wars
Some have argued that the post‐Cold War period has been much more unstable or violent than what came before. Certainly the number of wars has increased in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in Europe and Africa. More important, however, the nature of wars has changed. Overall casualties and direct participation in wars tend to be lower but the ratio of civilian to military casualties has risen quite dramatically. Wars tend to be longer, more pervasi…
Identity formation and the political marketplace
This article is an introduction to a special issue that focusses on the relationship between the political marketplace, identity politics and organised violence. The political marketplace refers to an extreme form of neo-liberalism in which political relations are monetised. The introduction makes the argument that political marketplaces are associated with fragmented exclusive transnational identities that are constructed through contemporary vi…
L'idée de société civile mondiale
Cet article explore l’évolution de l’idée de société civile mondiale et la manière dont celle-ci défie les concepts classiques des relations internationales, ces dernières étant entendues comme centrées sur les relations entre des États. Depuis les premiers penseurs modernes, la signification du concept de société civile s’est plusieurs fois restreinte. Plus récemment, dans les années 1980, le concept a été réinventé simultanément en Amérique lat…
Europe at the Millennium
This article argues that the future of the European project depends on the capacity to maintain security. It traces the link between security and political institutions in the case of nation states and, subsequently, blocs. The security of nation states and blocs was defined in terms of the defence of borders against an external enemy and the preservation of law and order within borders. Today, the distinction between internal and external has br…
General and complete disarmament
Reply to David Chandler
David Chandler's critique of global civil society is a critique of the notion of civil society rather than anything specifically ‘global’. He objects to the concept of a communicative space where i
Military force and European strategy
Commentary on Keane
Commentary on Kögler
This essay provides supplementary evidence for Kögler’s thesis. It argues that Putin will have ‘won’ if he succeeds in reducing Ukrainian society to a chaotic, fragmented, violent, long-term social condition that can be characterised as a ‘new war’. The essay describes the combination of the ‘political marketplace’ and exclusivist identity politics typical of new wars and how they apply to Putin’s Russia. It concludes with a proposal for negotiat…
Local agreements - an introduction to the special issue
This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on local agreements in intractable conflicts. By ‘local’, we refer to any type of agreement that covers a geographical area less than the entire national territory although the issues and actors may be national, regional, international as well as local. Our main finding is that local agreements are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflict, owing to the fragmented decentred character of con…
Introduction
This article is the introduction to a special issue on ‘Civicness in Conflict’. Civicness is defined in three ways: (i) as a logic of public authority, that speaks to ideas of rights-based, inclusive rather than exclusive political orders; (ii) as a form of behaviour, acting ‘as if’ such a logic existed; and (iii) as a political position, articulated against uncivic politics, in particular the combination of endemic corruption, ethnic or religiou…
The Resurgence of Singular Identities
This article is a reflection on Sen's book Identity and Violence and its relevance in explaining the rise of sectarian narratives world-wide. It makes three arguments. First what Sen calls “singular” or “unidimensional” identities, which tend to be binary or “either/or” identities, are not merely a determinant of violence, as Sen argues, but also an outcome of violence setting in motion a self-reinforcing logic. Second the rise of singular identi…
Missing the Point on Hard and Soft Power
This article is a critique of two reports of parliamentary inquiries, into intervention and soft power, respectively. Neither report includes any discussion of Britain's involvement in and culpability for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite a more radical approach taken by the report on soft power, the article argues that the failure to address recent wars is symptomatic of a deeper and more dangerous inability to face up to profound and da…
The military in development
General and complete disarmament
The Baroque Arsenal
Europe After Cruise and Pershing II
Civilisational Crisis
This article addresses the issue of ‘civilisational crisis’. The nation?state systems upon which the world economy is built require for their survival the reassertion of nationalism at ever higher levels, finding its most recent expression in the revival of the Cold War. At the same time the continued internationalisation of the post?war world economy threatens and undermines traditional geographical and political units and concepts. This process…
The Global Political Economy
The Weapons Succession Process
The weapons succession process is an analysis of military-technological change that draws upon classical economics and recent theories of bureaucratic politics. The analysis focuses on the institutional mechanisms for reconciling the demand for weapons with the supply of weapons. In wartime, the demand for weapons, determined in battle, shapes military-technological change. In peacetime, different styles of military-technological change depend on…
Toward a More Civil Society
After the Cold War
East Europeans always emphasize the power of words. This has been the essence of much of Havel’s political writings. The way we describe the world, the words we use, shape how we see the world and how we decide to act. Words and history—a collection of words used
The new nationalism in Europe
Far from ending, history seems to have accelerated since the revolutions of 1989. Germany has unified; the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia have fallen apart. A major war is taking place in the middle of the continent, with tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and the destruction of whole villages, towns, and historic buildings. Anti‐Semitism, anti‐gypsyism, and other forms of xenophobia are on the rise again almost ever…
Yugoslavia and the New Nationalism
A grotesque war is taking place in the middle of the European continent. It is an attack on lives, livelihoods, homes, villages, historic and religious buildings, and also on fundamental human values. A year ago, few people had heard of ‘ethnic cleansing’. Now it is clear that we
Citizenship and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe
This text argues that a democratically reconstructed Europe requires a new approach centred around a concept of citizenship which is neither individualistic or ethnically based, but is concerned with the empowerment of individuals. The authors propose the development of a well-structured and pluralistic civic society which encourages active citizenship and a definition of democratic citizenship which can be related to different types and levels o…
A cosmopolitan response to new wars
Some have argued that the post‐Cold War period has been much more unstable or violent than what came before. Certainly the number of wars has increased in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in Europe and Africa. More important, however, the nature of wars has changed. Overall casualties and direct participation in wars tend to be lower but the ratio of civilian to military casualties has risen quite dramatically. Wars tend to be longer, more pervasi…
Democratization in central and east European countries
The misery of Eastern Europe's small nations .. causes such great suspicion and irritation in Western European observers. [This] leads many people to conclude that the entire region.. .should be abandoned to its fate...This region's inability to consolidate itself is not due to its inherently barbarian nature, but to a series of unfortunate historical processes which squeezed it off the main course of European consolidation...We should not give u…
New and old wars
"In this analysis, Mary Kaldor argues that, in the context of globalization, 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, which she calls 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…
New and Old Wars
Civilising' Globalisation? The Implications of the `Battle in Seattle
Europe at the Millennium
This article argues that the future of the European project depends on the capacity to maintain security. It traces the link between security and political institutions in the case of nation states and, subsequently, blocs. The security of nation states and blocs was defined in terms of the defence of borders against an external enemy and the preservation of law and order within borders. Today, the distinction between internal and external has br…
Global Transformations and New Conflicts
Summaries The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post?Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the reverse of state and nation?building. The political economy of the ‘new wars’ involves a mix of state and non?state, national and international violence. It creates vicious cycles, reinforcing the decline in the formal sector, br…
A response
Civil Society and Accountability
This paper addresses the question of whether trust in civil society groups is justified when it comes to giving voice to the poor. It addresses the issue of accountability as it relates to civil society, defining "moral' accountability as an organization's accountability towards the people it was established to help, and procedural accountability as internal management. It draws a distinction between civil society and non-governmental organizatio…
The idea of global civil society
The idea of global civil society Get access Mary Kaldor Mary Kaldor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 3, May 2003, Pages 583–593, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00324 Published: 23 May 2003
American power
This article argues that the Bush strategy of ‘spectacle war’ is caught in an earlier Cold War paradigm primarily aimed at influencing American public opinion and that it fails to take into account the reality of the current global context, especially with regard to changes in the nature of sovereignty and in the role of military force. The United States, in its current posture, has the capability to be very destructive but is much less able to d…
Nationalism and Globalisation
This article argues that the current wave of nationalism has to be understood as a response to globalisation and not as evidence for the enduring nature of the national idea, as Smith suggests. It defends the modernist paradigm as a way of explaining nationalism and emphasises the role of war in the construction of nationalism. It puts forward an explanation for the current wave of nationalism in terms of changes in the division of labour, in com…
Global Civil Society 2004/5
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