100% satisfaction guarantee Immediately available after payment Both online and in PDF No strings attached
logo-home
Extensive summary of every required reading for International Relations (lecture 12-18) $11.64   Add to cart

Summary

Extensive summary of every required reading for International Relations (lecture 12-18)

 17 views  0 purchase
  • Course
  • Institution

International Relations (LY) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Extensive summary of every required reading for exam 2 (lecture 12-18). Tables, figures and images are included to foster an understanding of every article. Reading the summary will be sufficient to understand the literature.

Preview 4 out of 350  pages

  • May 14, 2024
  • 350
  • 2023/2024
  • Summary
avatar-seller
International Relations

Exam 2

Literature Summary



Lecture 12 Lecture 16

-Kaldor -Autesserre

-Kalyvas -De Coning



Lecture 13 Lecture 17

-Leblang & Peters -Wright et al.

-Irwin

Lecture 14

-Deaton Lecture 18

-Wright & Winters -Meyerrose

-Milner

Lecture 15

-Milanovic Lecture 19




Lecture 12 - Multi-level Politics of War



Kaldor, M. (2013). New and old wars: Organised violence in a global era -New and old

wars: Organised violence in a global era. John Wiley & Sons. Chapters 1 and 2.

Chapter 1 – Introduction

,In the summer of 1992 visited Nagorono-Karabakh in the Transcaucasian region in the midst

of the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia

-post-communist part of the world

-research about new types of wars in Eastern Europe shared a lot of features with new wars in

Africa or South Asia



Main claim – during the last decade of the 20th century a new type of organized violence has

developed (especially in Africa and Eastern Europe) which is one aspect of the current

globalized era

-new to distinguish such wars from prevailing perceptions of wars in earlier era’s

-war ( = (usually defined as violence between states or organized political groups for political

motives), organized crime ( = violence undertaken by privately organized groups for private

purposes, usually financial gain) and large-scale violations of human rights (violence

undertaken by states or politically organized groups against individuals).

-mostly termed civil wars or low-intensity conflicts – but even though they are localized they

involve transnational connections and the distinctions between internal and external,

between aggression (attacks from abroad) and repression (attacks from inside the country) or

even between local and global are difficult to sustain



Defining these ‘new wars’

1 Low-intenstiy conflict

-coined during the Cold war by the US military to describe guerilla warfare – but do not

capture the distinctive character of the new wars



2 privatized/ informal wars

,- yet, while the privatization of violence is an important element of these wars, in practice, the

distinction between what is private and what is public, state and non-state, informal and

formal, what is done for economic and what for political motives, cannot easily be applied.



3 Post-modern wars

-It offers a way of distinguishing these wars from the wars which could be said to be

characteristic of classical modernity.

-However, the term is also used to refer to virtual wars and wars in cyber-space; moreover, the

new wars involve elements of pre-modernity and modernity as well.



4 Frank Hoffman – hybrid wars

-the term nicely captures the blurring of public and private, state or non-state, formal and

informal that is characteristic of new wars; it is also used to refer to a mixture of different

types of war (conventional warfare, counter-insurgency, civil war, for example) and, as such,

may miss the specific logic of new wars.



5 Martin Shaw – degenerate warfare/ john Mueller – remnants of war

-For Shaw, there is a continuity with the total wars of the twentieth century and their

genocidal aspects; the term draws attention to the decay of the national frameworks,

especially military forces. Mueller argues that war in general (what I call old wars) has

declined and that what is left is banditry often disguised as political conflict.



Critics of the new war

, -Critics of the ‘new war’ argument have suggested that many features of the new wars can be

found in earlier wars and that the dominance of the Cold War overshadowed the significance

of ‘small wars’ or ‘low-intensity’ conflicts.

-The main point of the distinction between new and old wars was to change the prevailing

perceptions of war, especially among policy makers.



Ø want to emphasize the growing illegitimacy of these wars and the need for a

cosmopolitan political response – one that put individual rights and the rule of law as

the centerpiece of any international intervention (political, military, civil or economic).

Ø Globalization is a convenient catch-all to describe the various changes that

characterize the contemporary period and have influenced the character of war



Revolution in military affairs/ defense transformation = the advent of information technology

has implications for the future of warfare – modern war is now more precise and discriminate,

but these new conceptions are conceived within the inherited institutional structures of war

and the military – war in the traditional model in which techniques develop in a linear

extension from the past > sustain the imagined character of war which was typical in the Cold

War era and utilized to minimize own causalities

-The preferred technique is spectacular aerial bombing or rapid and dramatic ground

manoeuvres and most recently the use of robots and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)

especially drones, which reproduce the appearance of classical war for public consumption

but which turn out to be rather clumsy as an instrument and, in some cases, outright

counterproductive, for influencing the reality on the ground.

The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.

Quick and easy check-out

Quick and easy check-out

You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.

Focus on what matters

Focus on what matters

Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!

Frequently asked questions

What do I get when I buy this document?

You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.

Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?

Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.

Who am I buying these notes from?

Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller SavannahB. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.

Will I be stuck with a subscription?

No, you only buy these notes for $11.64. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.

Can Stuvia be trusted?

4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

82215 documents were sold in the last 30 days

Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 14 years now

Start selling
$11.64
  • (0)
  Add to cart