Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when
military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali,
Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts
never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings,
extra-judicial killings, the bombing of hospitals and schools and
sexual slavery are becoming increasingly common? In this book,
renowned scholar of war and human security Mary Kaldor introduces
the concept of global security cultures in order to explain why we
get stuck in particular pathways to security. A global security
culture, she explains, involves different combinations of ideas,
narratives, rules, people, tools, practices and infrastructure
embedded in a specific form of political authority, a set of power
relations, that come together to address or engage in large-scale
violence. In contrast to the Cold War period, when there was one
dominant culture based on military forces and nation-states,
nowadays there are competing global security cultures. Defining
four main types - geo-politics, new wars, the liberal peace, and
the war on terror she investigates how we might identify
contradictions, dilemmas and experiments in contemporary security
cultures that might ultimately open up new pathways to rescue and
safeguard civility in the future.
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