Global Security Cultures (Kaldor Mary)(Paperback)

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 conflicts in places like Syria or the Democratic Republic of Congo never end? And how is it that practices like targeted assassinations, the bombing of hospitals, beheadings or 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.
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