Martin ShawNew article on International Relations and genocide, now published: Martin Shaw, From Comparative to International Genocide Studies: The International Production of Genocide in Twentieth-Century Europe, European Journal of International Relations, Online First, 11 May 2011 (to be published in the print edition later in 2011 or 2012). Abstract Genocide is widely seen as a phenomenon [...]
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The Holocaust, Stalin’s genocides and the future of genocide research
Posted: May 12, 2011 in genocide, genocide reviewsThree new contributions, on related themes, to the new issue of Journal of Genocide Research: 1. Jürgen Matthäus; Martin Shaw; Omer Bartov; Doris Bergen; Donald Bloxham, Donald Bloxham, The Final Solution: A Genocide (review forum), 13, 1 and 2, 2011, 107 – 152. Read a draft of my contribution. 2. Martin Shaw, Jeffrey Alexander et al., Remembering the Holocaust: [...]
The Killing of Bin Laden: Revenge but not Justice
Posted: May 3, 2011 in Global War on Terror, international justiceTags: justice, killing of bin Laden, Obama
With the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Obama has achieved a much-needed conclusion to nearly ten years’ efforts to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to heel. Obama claimed to bring bin Laden ‘to justice’. But he managed this only in the sense that George Bush evoked in 2001, when he said that bin Laden [...]
