dangerous cultural conflicts are those along the fault lines between civilizations.” 268 The accuracy of Huntington’s work cannot be doubted, the fall of the Soviet Union certainly led to an increase of inter and intra-state conflicts, particularly across third world nations in regions such as Africa and the Middle-East, leading to the increased need for humanitarian interventions. This supports the work of Mary Kaldor in suggesting the era of novel security threats represents a transition within warfare, from traditional conflicts to New Wars , whereby the conventional deployment of military force between two states in an open confrontation is no longer the norm. 269 The use of identity politics to fight for a group of characteristically and ideology similar individuals against another therefore represents a significant new security threat to the international community. Conflicts of this nature were common within the 1990’s and required the intervention of UN forces to instil peace and reduce human suffering. The significance of these motives is key to understanding why humanitarian military intervention is required in such conflicts. Unlike the conventional battlefield objectives of states, the physical, territorial gains over an opponent are no longer the primary intentions of militant groups and will not, therefore, bring an end to a new war. This transfer from fighting for the state to fighting for ideologies also depicts the decline of national patriotism, as argued by Keith Suter. 270 The development of the ‘global consumer culture’ and introduction of micro - nationalism; the patriotism to a group or ethnicity within a state decreases patriotism and increases globalisation; a considerable threat outlined within the 2006 German White Paper. The interconnectivity of cultures, identities and ideologies subsequently distributes the security threats of an individual or group and projects them on a 268 Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilisations and the remaking of World Order , (Simon & Schuster, 2011), pp. 28. 269 Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, (Cambridge: Polity, 2012) 270 Keith Suter, Global Order and Global Disorder: Globalization and the Nation-state, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003), pp. 52.
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