Mary Henrietta KaldorCBE^[1] (born 16 March 1946)^[2] is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at theLondon School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit.^[3] She also teaches at theInstitut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Kaldor has been a key figure in the development ofcosmopolitan democracy. She writes onglobalisation,international relations andhumanitarian intervention,global civil society andglobal governance, as well as what she callsNew Wars.

The Honourable Mary Kaldor CBE
Kaldor in 2000.
Born	(1946-03-16)16 March 1946 (age 79)
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Global governance
Institutions	London School of Economics
Notes
Father:Nicholas Kaldor (deceased); sister:Frances Stewart

In 1981, Kaldor was a member of the anti-nuclearLabour Party Defence Study Group.^[4] She was a founding member ofEuropean Nuclear Disarmament, editing itsEuropean Nuclear Disarmament Journal (1983–88). She was the founder and Co-Chair of theHelsinki Citizens Assembly,^[5] and a founding member of theEuropean Council on Foreign Relations.^[6] She also writes forOpenDemocracy.net,^[7] belongs to the board of trustees of theHertie School of Governance, and is on the Editorial Board ofStability: International Journal of Security and Development.

In 1999 Kaldor supportedinternational military intervention over Kosovo on humanitarian grounds, calling forNATO ground forces to follow aerial bombardment in an article forThe Guardian.^[8] 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.^[9]

These views were repeated in her 2013 bookHuman Security.^[10]

She is the daughter of the economistNicholas Kaldor^[9] and Clarissa Goldschmidt, a history graduate of theUniversity of Oxford who studied atSomerville College. She is also the sister ofFrances Stewart, Professor at theOxford Department of International Development (ODID) at Oxford. The Kaldor family moved to west Cambridge in 1950.^[11] Kaldor began her career with a B.A. inphilosophy, politics and economics (PPE) from Oxford University.^[7] In 2008, she marriedJulian Perry Robinson, a chemist and lawyer, who died 22 April 2020. The couple first met while both were working atStockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and joined theUniversity of Sussex in 1971. They had two sons.^[12]

• Kaldor, Mary (1978).The disintegrating West. New York: Hill and Wang.ISBN 9780809039043.
• Kaldor, Mary (1981).The Baroque Arsenal. New York: Hill and Wang.ISBN 9780809028122.
• Kaldor, Mary (1990).The imaginary war: understanding the East-West conflict. Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell.ISBN 9781557861801.
• Kaldor, Mary (2003).Global civil society: an answer to war. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press.ISBN 9780745627588.
• Kaldor, Mary (2007).Human security: reflections on globalization and intervention. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press.ISBN 9780745638546.
• Kaldor, Mary (2012).New & old wars: organized violence in a global era (3rd ed.). Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.ISBN 9780804785495.

Second edition,ISBN 9780745638638

First edition,ISBN 9780804737227

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

• Kaldor, Mary (1982), "Warfare and Capitalism", in New Left Review (ed.),Exterminism and Cold War, Thetford, Norfolk: New Left Review, Verso edition by Thetford Press Ltd., pp. 261–287,ISBN 0-86091-746-0
• Kaldor, Mary (2009), "Protective security or protection rackets? War and sovereignty", inKanbur, Ravi;Basu, Kaushik (eds.),Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 470–487,ISBN 9780199239979.
• Kaldor, Mary (2011), "War and Economic Crisis", inCalhoun, Craig;Derluguian, Georgi (eds.),Possible Futures Series: The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism, London and New York: New York University Press, pp. 109–133,ISBN 978-0-8147-7280-5

• Kaldor, Mary (2013)."In defence of new wars".Stability: International Journal of Security and Development.2 (1): 4.doi:10.5334/sta.at.
• Kaldor, Mary (2020)."Human Security: Practical Possibilities".LSE Public Policy Review.1 (2).doi:10.31389/lseppr.15.