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Mary Kaldor is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. An expert on security and civil society, she has researched and written exclusively about these topics, and has written for openDemocracy on Iraq and the issue of terrorism. This page lists her work as an oD columnist. Her author profile contains all her oD articles.

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Gaza: the "new war"

Mary Kaldor
Israel must think in terms of human - not national - security to find an exit from a war without end

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Secure Afghanistan

Mary Kaldor and Marika Theros
Human security ought to be the goal of any Obama surge in Afghanistan, not defeat of Al Qaeda.

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The paradox of Basra

Mary Kaldor
A visit to Iraq's second city reveals fraught divisions of both wealth and ideology

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The Pentagon's thinking

Mary Kaldor
US military strategists are debating a new security paradigm. But only politics can make it happen

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The real lesson from the 1930s

Mary Kaldor
Economic crisis should be a prelude to an IT-rich era of fairness, security and clean energy 

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Sovereignty, status and the humanitarian perspective

Mary Kaldor
A focus on human safety and return of displaced persons ought to guide attitudes to Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence

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