New and old wars: organized violence in the global era

Mary Caldor fundamentally changed the approach of modern scientists and politicians to understand the modern war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this breakthrough book showed: what we considered war (that is, the war between states in which the goal is to apply maximum violence), becomes anakronism. Instead, a new type of organized violence appears, or "New Wars", which can be described as a mixture of war, organized crime and massive violations of human rights. These wars take part in both global and local, both public and private participants. Wars are conducted for private political goals using terror tactics and destabilization, which are formally prohibited by the rules for the conduct of modern wars. The present publication of "new and old wars" can become a desktop book of researchers of international relations, political scientists and conflictologists, and will also be interested in anyone who wants to learn about the changing nature and prospects of wars