Mary Henrietta Kaldor (born 16 March 1946) is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the

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, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She also teaches at the

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(IBEI). Kaldor has been a key figure in the development of

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. She writes on

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and

humanitarian intervention Humanitarian intervention is the Use of force in international law, use or threat of military force by a state (or states) across borders with the intent of ending severe and widespread human rights violations in a state which has not given permi ...

, global civil society and

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, as well as what she calls New Wars.

Career

In 1981, Kaldor was a member of the anti-nuclear Labour Party Defence Study Group. She was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament, editing its '' European Nuclear Disarmament Journal'' (1983–88). She was the founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, and a founding member of the

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. She also writes for OpenDemocracy.net, belongs to the board of trustees of the

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, and is on the Editorial Board of '' Stability: International Journal of Security and Development''. In 1999 Kaldor supported international military intervention over Kosovo on humanitarian grounds, calling for

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ground forces to follow aerial bombardment in an article for ''

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''. However, Kaldor had lost faith in humanitarian intervention by 2009, telling the same paper: "The international community makes a terrible mess wherever it goes":

It is hard to find a single example of humanitarian intervention during the 1990s that can be unequivocally declared a success. Especially after Kosovo, the debate about whether human rights can be enforced through military means is ever more intense. Moreover, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have been justified in humanitarian terms, have further called into question the case for intervention.

These views were repeated in her 2013 book ''Human Security''.

Family

She is the daughter of the economist

Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare spending, welfare comparisons ...

'', 1 April 2008
Interview: 'The international community makes a terrible mess wherever it goes'
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who studied at

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. She is also the sister of Frances Stewart, Professor at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at Oxford. The Kaldor family moved to west Cambridge in 1950. Kaldor began her career with a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) from Oxford University.opendemocracy.ne
Mary Kaldor
In 2008, she married

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, a chemist and lawyer, who died 22 April 2020. The couple first met while both were working at

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(SIPRI) and joined the

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in 1971. They had two sons.

Selected bibliography

Books

* * * * * * ::Second edition, ::First edition, :: ::Kaldor, Mary (2018). Global Security Cultures, UK Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Polity Press. ISBN 9781509509218

Chapters in books

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Journal articles

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References

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