Mary Kaldor's Wars New and Old fundamentally changed the way modern scholars and policymakers understand modern war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this breakthrough book showed that what we thought was war (that is, war between states in which the goal is the use of maximum violence) is becoming an anachronism. In its place is a new type of organized violence, or “new wars,” which can be described as a mixture of war, organized crime and massive violations of human rights. Both global and local, state and private participants take part in these wars. Wars are fought for private political goals using tactics of terror and destabilization, which are formally prohibited by the rules of modern wars. This edition of “New and Old Wars” can become a reference book for researchers of international relations, political scientists and conflict experts, and will also be of interest to everyone who wants to know about the changing nature and prospects of wars.