New Wars

New Wars

New wars describe international or civil wars of low-intensity conflict that involve a myriad of transnational connections so that the distinctions between internal and external, aggression and repression, local and global are difficult to sustain. The term is an antonym of conventional warfare whereupon conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics are no longer used between two or more states in open confrontation.A key thinker in New Wars theory is Mary Kaldor who explained how globalisation has made three changes to war; it is based on claiming identity not territory,Guerrilla or terror tactics are used andinternational crime has changed how wars are funded. An example for the theory is the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Other supporters of the new wars theory are Herfried Munkler from Germany and Martin van Creveld from the Netherlands.


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