ABSTRACT
Mary Kaldor's different take on war distinguishes between old wars and the new wars that have emerged through opportunities created by the Soviet collapse and by thick globalisation. New wars have multiple and shifting authority centres, target civilians, carry elements of ethnic and religious identity, reintroduce genocidal strategies and are often managed by criminal networks that illicitly trade arms, drugs, diamonds and looted antiquities to sustain warlords and warriors. As in terrorism studies, there is a critical tradition in international relations (IR) war studies that has expanded the locations and phenomena to be studied as war. One way to approach the deployment of counterinsurgency within the US heartland is to consider the dimensions of war that appear in the Boston anti-terrorism actions. But when the author's compare searches in Boston with searches in a war zone, and gun battles in Iraq with those that occurred on Boston city streets, a number of resonances of terrorwar emerge.
