IntLawandNewWars

International Law and New Wars

In this new book, Chinkin and Kaldor examine how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of 'new wars'. They put forward a practical case for what they define as second generation human security and the implications this carries for international law.

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Negotiations of the »New World«: The Omnipresence of »Global« as a Political Phenomenon

»Global« is everywhere .... but what do social actors actually do when using this term? This new book argues that the omnipresence of the adjective 'global' is not just a linguistic curiosity but a distinct political phenomenon: the negotiation and reproduction of the 'new world'.

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From Hybrid Peace to Human Security: Rethinking EU Strategy towards Conflict

The Berlin Report of the Human Security Study Group - Presented to the European External Action Service, 24 February 2016, Brussels

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Resilience and resilient in Obama’s National Security Strategy 2010: Enter two ‘political keywords’

This article looks at the use of the words 'resilient' and 'resilience' in Obama's National Security Strategy 2010 and argues that it constitutes an exercise in ‘occupying’ these words with ideologically loaded meanings. This can be interpreted as the actualisation of both words as ‘political keywords’.

From Publications

Countering the logic of the war economy in Syria; evidence from three local areas

Within four years of the armed conflict that followed the Syria uprising, the Syrian economy has been reordered into a new decentralised, fragmented and regionally and globally connected economy, in which the main economic activities depend on violence and violence depends on those same economic activities.

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From Publications

The Construction of “European security” in “The European Union in a Changing Global Environment”: A Systematic Analysis

This article systematically studies HR Federica Mogherini's strategic paper "The European Union in a Changing Global Environment" to understand the discursive foundations of the new EU Global Strategy.

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From Projects

Syria's War Economy - new research

This project explores what can be termed the ‘war economy’ in Syria. The major empirical study looks at how the Syrian economy has become distorted to depend on violent and illegitimate activity and puts forward a number of recommendations to break this cycle. The SiT team, led by Dr Rim Turkmani, focused their work on three areas of Syria under opposition control, eastern Gouta, Idleb and the Daraa and Aleppo countryside.

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Principal Researcher & Grant Holder

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Professor Mary Kaldor, LSE

Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the LSE. She has researched and written extensively about security and civil society. Read more »

The Programme

‘Security in Transition’ (SIT) is a 5-year-research programme at the London School of Economics (LSE), funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

The starting point of this research programme is the assumption that the world is in the midst of a profound change in the way that security is conceptualised and practised. Up until 1989, security was largely viewed either as ‘internal security’ or as ‘national’ or ‘bloc’ security and the main instruments of security were considered to be the police, the intelligence services and the military. This traditional view of security fits uneasily with the far-reaching changes in social and political organisation that characterise the world at the beginning of the twenty first century. What we call the ‘security gap’ refers to the gap between our national and international security capabilities, largely based on conventional military forces, and the reality of the everyday experience of insecurity in different parts of the world.

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Latest

From Military to ‘Security Interventions’:: In both academic and policy circles international interventions tend to mean ‘military’ interventions and debates tend to focus on whether such interventions are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in general. Read more »

'Unsere beste Waffe ist keine Waffe': German edition of Mary Kaldor's 'The ultimate weapon is no weapon' is now available Read more »

Syria's War Economy - new research: This project explores what can be termed the ‘war economy’ in Syria. The major empirical study looks at how the Syrian economy has become distorted to depend on violent and illegitimate activity and puts forward a number of recommendations to break this cycle. The SiT team, led by Dr Rim Turkmani, focused their work on three areas of Syria under opposition control, eastern Gouta, Idleb and the Daraa and Aleppo countryside. Read more »

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