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Mary Kaldor on ESDP, human security and the EU as neoliberal project
Watch an interview with Mary Kaldor on ESDP, human security, the EU as neoliberal project and the domestication of the world @ Dahrendorff Symposium in Berlin, December 2011
Inconclusive Wars: Is Clausewitz Still Relevant in these Global Times?
In this article Mary Kaldor unravels that the core Clausewitzean proposition that war tends to extremes no longer applies in contemporary wars. Instead she puts forward an alternative proposition that war tends to be long lasting and inconclusive.
Public launch of the ‘Security in Transition’-programme
The 'Security in Transition'-Programme was launched on 2 November 2011 at LSE. The podcast of the public event with Professor Mary Kaldor, Javier Solana, Lakhdar Brahimi, chaired by Professor Tim Allen, is now available.
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Security: Present and Future Challenges
The podcast of the 'Security: Present and Future Challenges'-event is available online.
Principal Researcher & Grant Holder
Professor Mary Kaldor, LSE
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the LSE. She has researched and written extensively about security and civil society. Read more »
The Programme
‘Security in Transition’ (SIT) is a 5-year-research programme at the London School of Economics (LSE), funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
The starting point of this research programme is the assumption that the world is in the midst of a profound change in the way that security is conceptualised and practised. Up until 1989, security was largely viewed either as ‘internal security’ or as ‘national’ or ‘bloc’ security and the main instruments of security were considered to be the police, the intelligence services and the military. This traditional view of security fits uneasily with the far-reaching changes in social and political organisation that characterise the world at the beginning of the twenty first century. What we call the ‘security gap’ refers to the gap between our national and international security capabilities, largely based on conventional military forces, and the reality of the everyday experience of insecurity in different parts of the world.
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New paperback: The paperback edition of 'The European Union and Human Security: External Interventions and Missions' is now available. Read more »
Research Fields
Culture/s 
- Dr Sabine Selchow, LSE
Geographies 
- Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Indicators 
- Dr Sally Stares, LSE
