Рецензия:
Калдор М. (2015) Новые и старые войны: организованное насилие в глобальную эпоху,
М.: Дело. Библиографическое описание: DOI: 10.17323/1728-192X-2015-4-191-194.

Isolated Modernity

Kaldor M. (2015) Novye i starye vojny: organizovannoe nasilie v global’nuju jepohu [new and old wars: organized violence in a global era]
(transl. a. appolonov, m. dondukovsky), moscow: delo. 416 p. isbn 978-5-93255-417-3 (in russian)

Alexander Finiarel

Undegraduate Student, School of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities,

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Address: Myasnitskaya str. 20, 101000 Moscow, Russian Federation

E-mail: finearalex@gmail.com

This year The Gaidar Institute Publishing House has translated Mary Kaldor’s book New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era. Being for the first time published in 1999, the book became a scientific sensation and was long and widely debated. Despite the fact that the book has already become quite old it is of a special contemporary interest since it can be addressed to the many large-scale conflicts which have begun in the last few years.

In her work Kaldor analyses how modern wars have changed in comparison to what used to be understood by war. In Chapter 1 “the old wars” 1 are analyzed based on the ideas of Clausewitz. Chapters 2–5 are devoted to the study of “the new wars.” In Chapter 6 Kaldor proposes the means of the realization of cosmopolitan governance. Chapter 7 applies Kaldor’s ideas to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chapter 8 investigates theories about the future.