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 …

Agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
the United Nations and the World Bank continue to privilege national over municipal …

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to
reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones …

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What are the different political institutions rebels create to engage captive civilian
populations, and how do they arrive at distinct political arrangements? Rebel-controlled …

Why do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into
it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict internal conflict as a …

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single
country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent …

International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945.
This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that …

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 …

The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding
failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field …