{"title":"Mary Kaldor","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Kaldor's work offers an incisive exploration of contemporary geopolitical challenges, focusing on themes such as global security and the complexities of modern conflict. Her writings provide thoughtful analyses of the ways power, politics, and society intersect in an increasingly interconnected world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous yet accessible accounts that engage deeply with current affairs, blending academic insight with critical perspectives. Her books are essential for those interested in understanding the evolving nature of global security cultures and political experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"global-security-cultures-by-mary-kaldor-9781509509188","title":"Global Security Cultures","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, renowned scholar of war and human security, Mary Kaldor introduces the concept of \u003cem\u003eglobal security cultures\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596489572588,"sku":"9781509509188","price":84.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/340261a9f2e1f54d0eb8ca9ffe5572b5.jpg?v=1777928609"},{"product_id":"experimental-junctures-by-mary-kaldor-9780231221504","title":"Experimental Junctures","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are witnessing a potential turning point in world history. The American social and political model—mass production and consumption relying on fossil fuels—has run its course, but no alternative model has yet emerged to take its place. Why do such profound ruptures occur in global affairs, and how might they be resolved?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMary Kaldor introduces a new concept, \u003cem\u003eexperimental junctures\u003c\/em\u003e, to account for what happens when political institutions are out of kilter with far-reaching economic, social, and technological change. In these times of existential crisis, political leaders must act, but their frameworks for action are out of date. Instead, they experiment with ideas drawn from outside their ranks—some with disastrous consequences, others potentially able to command a new long-term consensus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePutting forward a theory of political innovation that foregrounds social movements, Kaldor shows that during experimental junctures, the political class borrows from civil society. She warns that if political leaders today do not embrace democratic experimentalism and transform institutions at all levels, the prognosis could be a catastrophic world war. A capstone work from a major scholar of political authority and violence, \u003cem\u003eExperimental Junctures\u003c\/em\u003e makes a timely case for the emergence of a new global order after American hegemony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67807576621292,"sku":"9780231221504","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a296e1aa3015dd584834665e4b7aa759.jpg?v=1792623161"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/mary-kaldor.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}