Mary Kaldor
Mary Henrietta Kaldor (born March 16, 1946 in the United Kingdom ) is a British academic and professor of global governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science .
Life
Kaldor is the younger daughter of the English economist Nicholas Kaldor from Hungary . She graduated from the University of Oxford in England with a bachelor's degree in politics, philosophy and economics .
Kaldor worked at the Swedish Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), of which she is still a board member. She worked closely with the English economist Christopher Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex . Since the 1970s she has become known as an author on globalization and international relations as well as human security through humanitarian interventions, a global civil society and global governance. She also writes about the “New Wars” and asymmetrical warfare .
Kaldor was active in various bodies that advocate disarmament and the prohibition of nuclear weapons in Europe, such as European Nuclear Disarmament , and was the editor of the European Nuclear Disarmament Journal from 1983 to 1988 . She is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and writes for opendemocracy.net. She is also on the supervisory board of the Berlin-based Hertie School of Governance and is part of the editorial team of the magazine Stability: International Journal of Security and Development .
Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he heads the Center for the Study of Global Governance.
Publications
- 1978: The Disintegrating West . Allen Lane, London, ISBN 0-7139-1076-3 .
- 1990: The Imaginary War . Basil Blackwell.
- 1992: German by Michael Haupt and Thomas Laugstein: The imaginary war: A history of the East-West conflict . Argument Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin, ISBN 3-88619-392-6 .
- 1999: New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in A Global Era . Stanford University Press. New edition: Polity Press, Cambridge, England 2013.
- 2000: German by Michael Adrian: New and old wars: Organized violence in the age of globalization . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-518-41131-4 .
- 2003: Global Civil Society: An Answer to War . Wiley, ISBN 0-745627587 .
- 2007: Human Security: Reflections on Globalization and Intervention . Polity Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 978-0-7456-3854-6 .
- 2010: with Mary Martin (Ed.): The European Union and Human Security. External Interventions and Missions , Routledge, London, ISBN 978-0-415-49872-2 .
- 2010: with Shannon D. Beebe: The Ultimate Weapon is no Weapon .
- 2012: Our best weapon is not a weapon: Conflict resolution for the 21st century , German by Michael Müller. Suhrkamp, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-42336-3 .
- 2012: New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era , third edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, ISBN 978-0-80478549-5, England
- 2017: with Christine Chinkin : International Law and New Wars . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 978-1-107171213 .
Web links
- kaldor.htm website of the School of Economics (en.)
- Mary Kaldor in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists
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SURNAME | Kaldor, Mary |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaldor, Mary Henrietta (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British political scientist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | United Kingdom |