POLS2123 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Identity Politics, Geopolitics, Human Security Report 2005
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New wars are fought in the name of identity (ethnic, religious or tribal). Identity politics has a different logic from geopolitics or ideology. The aim is to gain access to the state for groups rather than to carry out policies or programmes in the broader public interest. The is associated with new communications technologies, with migration both from country to town and across the world, and the erosion of more inclusive (often state- based) political ideologies like socialism or post-colonial nationalism. Perhaps most importantly, identity politics is constructed through war. Thus, political mobilisation around identity is the aim of war rather than an instrument of war, as was the case in old wars". identity politics rise of: methods: in old wars, battle was the decisive encounter. The method of waging war consisted of capturing territory through military means. In new wars, battles are rare and territory is captured through political means, through control of the population.
