Key Publications:

Books:

• Global Security Cultures. Polity, Cambridge, 2018.
• International Law and New Wars, (co-written with Professor Christine Chinkin), Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  
• New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (third edition), Polity Press, Cambridge, 2012.
• The Ultimate Weapon Is No Weapon – Human Security And The New Rules Of War And Peace, co-author, Public Affairs, New York, 2010.
• Human Security: Essays on Globalisation and Intervention, Polity Press, Cambridge, September 2007.
• New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (second edition), Polity Press, Cambridge, 2006.
• Global Civil Society: An Answer to War, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2003.
• New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era, Polity Press/Stanford University Press, 1999 (translated into eleven languages). 
• The Imaginary War:  Understanding the East-West Conflict, Basil Blackwell, 1990 (also published in German). 
• Más Allá de Los Bloques, Editions Fontamara, Madrid, 1986 (collection of essays). 
• The Baroque Arsenal, André Deutsch and Fontana, London, and Hill and Wang, New York, 1981 (also published in German and Japanese).
• A Short Research Guide to Arms and Armed Forces, Croom Helm, London, 1978 (co-author).
• The Disintegrating West, Allen Lane/Penguin Books, London, and Hill and Wang, New York, 1978, (also published in Spanish).
• The Arms Trade with the Third World, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Almqvist and Wicksell, Stockholm, and Humanities Press, New York, 1971 (principal co-author). 

Edited Books:

• Cities at war: global insecurity and urban resistance, (co-edited), Columbia University Press, 2020
• EU global strategy and human security: rethinking approaches to conflict (co-edited) Routledge Studies in Human Security. Routledge, London, UK, 2018
• Subterranean Politics in Europe, (co-edited), Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (ebook)
• The Handbook of Global Security Policy (co-edited), Wiley Blackwell, 2014
• The Quest for Security: Protection without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance. Co-author and Co-editor, Columbia University Press, 2013
• National, European and Human Security: From co-existence to convergence, Mary Kaldor, Mary Martin and Narcis Serra, Routledge Studies in Human Security, 2012
• Arguing about the World: The work and Legacy of Meghnad Desai (co-editor). Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
• The European Union and Human Security: External interventions and missions, Mary Martin and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Routledge, 2010
• Oil Wars, co-editor, Pluto, 2007
• A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: Project, principles, practicalities, (co-editor and contributor), Routledge, 2006
• Global Civil Society Yearbook (A annual publication; OUP 2001- 2003; Sage 2004-2009; Palgrave 2011-20012), co-author, co-editor
• Global Insecurity: Volume III of Restructuring the Global Military Sector Cassell/Pinter 2000
• Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe, (co-editor and contibutor), Pinter, 1999
• Restructuring the Global Military Sector ‑ Volume I: New Wars; Volume II: The End of Military Fordism, (co-editor and contributor), Cassell/Pinter Publishers, 1998
• The European Rupture: The Defence Sector in Transition, (co-editor and contributor), WIDER, Edward Elgar, 1997
• Citizenship and Democratic Control in Europe, (co-editor and contributor), Edward Elgar, 1996
• Europe from Below, Verso, 1991
• The New Détente:  Rethinking East-West Relations, (co-editor and contributor), Verso, 1989
• Dealignment:  A New Foreign Policy Prespective, (co-editor and contributor), Basil Blackwell, 1987
• Disarming Europe, (co-editor and contributor), Merlin Press, 1982
• The World Military Order:  The Impact of Military Technology on the Third World, (co-editor and contributor), reprinted 1981, Macmillan, London 1979

Journal Articles:

• Gender and new wars (co-written with Punam Yadav and Christine Chinkin). Stability, 9 (1), 2020
• The Resurgence of Singular Identities: Possible Explanations’, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 20(2), 2019
• The logics of public authority: understanding power, politics and security in Afghanistan (co-written with Marika Theros), 2002–2014. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 7 (1), 2018
• Cycles in world politics, International Studies Review, 20(2), 2018
• How Peace Agreements Undermine the Rule of Law in New War Settings, Global Policy, 7(9), 2016
• Special Issue: Law, Justice and the Security Gap: an introduction, (co-authored with Christine Chinkin, Iavor Rangelov and Sharon Weill), Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 2015
• From Military to ‘Security Interventions’: An Alternative Approach to Contemporary Interventions (co-authored with Dr Sabine Selchow). Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 4(1): 32, pp. 1–12, 2015
• Missing the Point on Hard and Soft Power? The Political Quarterly, 2014, Vol.85(3), pp.373-377 
• Gender and New Wars, (co-authored), Journal of International Affairs, Vol.67, No.1, fall/winter 2013
• ‘Identity and War’, Global Policy, Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2013
• ‘Comment on security cosmopolitanism’ Critical Studies on Security, volume 1, issue 1, 14 June 2013
• ‘The Bubbling-Up of Subterranean Politics in Europe’ (co-authored) Journal for Civil Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2013
• ‘In Defence of New Wars’ Stability Journal, Vol 2, No 1, 7 March 2013
• ‘La UE como Nuevo tipo de autoridad política: el ejemplo de la politica de seguridad’, Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, December 2012
• “The EU as a new form of political authority: The example of CSDP”, Global Policy, 2012, 3:79-86
• ‘Persistent conflict’, co-author.  Conflict, security & development, 12 (3). pp. 193-199
• ‘Human Security’, society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe – journal of the Cornivus University of Budapest, 33 (2011) 3, pp.441-448
• ‘Stability, War and Human Security in the 21st Century: Addendum to Desai’, Global Policy, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2011, p.229-230
• ‘Human Security in Complex Operations, PRISM, Vol.2, No.2 March 2011
• ‘Inconclusive Wars: Is Clausewitz still relevant in these global times?’, Global Policy, Volume 1, Issue 3, October 2010, p.271-281
• ‘New Thinking in the Pentagon’, Peace Magazine, January-March 2009, p. 20-24
• ‘Informe: la seguridad humana en Palestina’ with Mient Jan Faber, in Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales, no.98, 2007
• ‘L’idée de société civile mondiale’ in Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques vol. xxxviii, numero 1, 2007-10-23
• ‘Faz a lei e não a Guerra: o aparecimento da sociedade civil global’, in Guerra e Paz No Século XXI, Castells, M. and Serra, N., Fim de Século, 2007
• ‘Human Security: a new strategic narrative for Europe’, with Martin, M and Selchow, S, in International Affairs, vol.83, no. 2, March 2007
• ‘Un Nuevo enfoque sobre las guerras’, in Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales, no.94, 2006
• ‘Military Force and European Strategy’, with Salmon, A, in Survival, vol. 48, no.1, 2006, pp.19-34
• ‘La sécurité humaine: un concept pertinent?’, Politique Étrangè, 4:2006, November 2006, pp.901-914
• ‘London Leeft Door’, in IK: Vredeskrant 2005, 2005, p.4
• ‘Old Wars, Cold Wars, New Wars, and the War on Terror’, in International Politics, vol.42, 2005, pp.491-498
• ‘We have to think about the security of individuals rather than the protection of borders’, in Boston Review, vol.30, no.1, 2005, pp.21-22
• ‘Menselijke veiligheid als doctrine voor het gemeenschappelijk buitenlands en veiligheidsbeleid van de Europese Unie’, with Glasius, M, in Vrede en Veiligheid, vol.34, no.2, 2005
• ‘Nationalism and Globalisation’ Nations and Nationalism Volume 10, Part 1, April 2004 
• ‘ The Idea of Global Civil Society’ International Affairs, Volume 79, Number 3, May 2003, pp 583-593
• ‘Civil Society and Accountability’ Journal of Human Development, Vol. 4, No 1 , 2003
• ‘American Power: From Compellance to Cosmopolitanism’ International Affairs, Vol. 79, Number 1, January 2003, pp1-22
• ‘Global Transformations and New Conflicts’, (co-author), Structural Conflict in the New Global Disorder: Insecurity and Development, IDS Bulletin, Volume 32, No. 2, April 2001
• ‘Civilising’ Globalisation? The Implications of the ‘Battle in Seattle’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2000, Vol.29, No.1, pp.105-114
• ‘Europe at the Millennium’ Politics, Volume 20, Number 2, May 2000. Pp 55-62
• “The Ideas of ’89: The Origins of the Concept of Global Civil Society”, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 1999.
• “Reconstruction in the Balkans: A Challenge for Europe?” with Vesna Bojicic and Ivan Vejvoda in European Foreign Affairs Review Autumn 1997, Vol 2, Issue 3, pp 329 –350
• “Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe” with Ivan Vejvoda in International Affairs, January 1997, vol.73.1, pp 59-82
• “A Cosmopolitan Response to New Wars” Peace Review 8.4 Dec 1996, pp 505-514
• “The Changing Global Military Paradigm” WIDER Angle, August 1996
• “Who Killed the Cold War?” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol.51, No.4, July/Aug 1995, pp57-61
• “The New Nationalism in Europe” Peace Review 5:2 1993, pp 247-262
• “The Wars in Yugoslavia” New Left Review 197 January-February 1993, pp 96 -112, also published in French in Liber, Annexe d’Archives de Recherches en Sciences Sociales and in Hungarian in the Budapest Review of Books
• “Eastern Europe: Towards a Peacetime Economy ?” SAIS Review Winter/Spring 1992, pp 11-26
• “Eastern Europe: Aspirations and Reality”, Science and Public Policy, December 1991, pp 369-373
• “After the Cold War” Feminist Review, No. 39 Winter 1991, pp 109-114
• “Conversion and the Global Economy” Disarmament: Topical Papers 5, UN, New York 1991 
• “Avoiding a New Division of Europe” World Policy Journal Winter 1990-91 (also published in Vandkunsten, Danish peace research journal) pp181-193
• “After the Cold War”, New Left Review 180, March/April 1990, pp 25-40
• “Technologie Militaire et Dynamisme Économique”, La Recherche, October 1988, pp 1270-1277
• “Europe after INF”, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, March 1988
• “Industrial Competitiveness and Britain’s Defence”, Lloyds Bank Review, October 1986 (co-author) pp 31-49
• “The Weapons Succession Process”, World Politics, July 1986, pp577-595
• “The Global Political Economy”, Alternatives, Vol XI, 1986, pp 431-460
• “An Alternative Security Concept for Europe”, Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol 6, No 4, 1985
• “Disengaging Europe from the Superpowers” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 40th Anniversary Issue, August 1985, pp140-143
• “The Non-Nuclear Alternative”, Catalyst, Vol 1, No 2, Summer 1985, pp 49-63
• “Europe after Cruise and Pershing II”, Millenium Journal of International Studies, Vol 13, No 1, Spring 1984 pp 73- 81
• “Beyond the Blocs:  Defending Europe the Political Way”, World Policy Journal, Vol 1, No 1, Fall 1983, pp1-21
• “Military R&D: Cause or Consequence of the Arnms Race?” International Social Science Journal Vol XXXV, No 1, 1983, pp 25-45
• “Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance” Democracy Vol. 2, No.1, January 1982, pp 9-23
• “The Significance of Military Technology”, Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol 8, No 2, 1977, pp121-123
• “Military Technology and Social Structure”, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 33, No.6, June 1977, pp 49-53
• “The Armaments Sector” IDS Bulletin Vol. 9, No. 2, December 1977, pp 35-38
• “General and Complete Disarmament: A Systems-analysis Approach” (with R.Curnow and others) Futures October 1976, pp 384-396
• “The Military and Development”, World Development,Vol.4, No.6, June 1976, pp 459-482
• “Forschungsführer Militär und Rustungsindustrie” (with Julian Perry-Robinson and others), Technologie und Politik, 4, 1976.