Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the LSE. She was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), is founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly, and was a member of the International Independent Commission to investigate the Kosovo Crisis. She was also the Convener of the Study Group on European Security Capabilities, which produced the Barcelona report A Human Security Doctrine for Europe. Her books include New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (2nd ed. 2006); Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003); and Human Security: Reflections on Globalization and Intervention (2007). She is also editor and co-author of the annual Global Civil Society Yearbook.
Social Democracy and Human Security
In spite of the disastrous consequences of the Iraq war, there is still a need for maintaining global capabilities for human security.
Social democracy has to rediscover its internationalist and humanitarian roots. I do have more general views about the future of social democracy, which I will summarise in the first half of this article. But [...]
