Mary Henrietta Kaldor was born on 16 March 1946 and is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit.
11 Facts About Mary Kaldor
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Mary Kaldor teaches at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals.
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Mary Kaldor has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy.
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Mary Kaldor writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.
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In 1981, Kaldor was a member of the anti-nuclear Labour Party Defence Study Group.
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Mary Kaldor was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament, editing its European Nuclear Disarmament Journal.
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Mary Kaldor was the founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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In 1999 Mary Kaldor supported international military intervention over Kosovo on humanitarian grounds, calling for NATO ground forces to follow aerial bombardment in an article for The Guardian.
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However, Mary Kaldor had lost faith in humanitarian intervention by 2009, telling the same paper: "The international community makes a terrible mess wherever it goes":.
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Mary Kaldor is the daughter of the economist Nicholas Kaldor and Clarissa Goldschmidt, a history graduate of the University of Oxford who studied at Somerville College.
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Mary Kaldor is the sister of Frances Stewart, Professor at the Oxford Department of International Development at Oxford.