RT Book
T1 Global security cultures
A1 Kaldor, Mary 1946-
LA English
PP Cambridge Medford
PB Polity
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1006641300
AB 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 187-211
CN JZ5588
SN 9781509509188
SN 9781509509171
K1 Security, International
K1 Strategic culture
K1 War
K1 Geopolitics
K1 Peace-building
K1 Terrorism : Prevention
K1 Terrorism
K1 Geopolitik : Sicherheitspolitik : Politische Kultur