Download or read book New & Old Wars written by Mary Kaldor and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the implications of 'the new wars' in the post 9-11 world. This work shows how old war thinking in Iraq has greatly exacerbated what is the archetypal new war - with insurgency, chaos and the occupying forces' lack of direction prescient of a different kind of conflict emerging in the 21st Century.