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Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars (Cambridge MA, 1999 & 2006).

 

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David Keen, The Economic Functions of Violence in Civil War (Oxford, 1998).

 

Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (New York, 2007).