No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts

by PaulRichards (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $25.29

  The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?'

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $41.79

  A rash of small wars erupted after the Cold War ended in Africa, the Balkans, and other parts of the former communist world. No Peace, No War departs from the usual analysis that considers the new wars mindless mass actions to offer the paradoxical idea that to understand war it must be denied special status. Rather than leave war to the security specialists, these writers attempt to grasp its character as one among many aspects of social reality.