Martin ShawGeorge Monbiot has written an interesting take in The Guardian on ‘left-wing’ denial of the Srebrenica genocidal massacre and the Rwandan genocide, Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers. Monbiot refers to the recent book by Edward Herman (Noam Chomsky’s collaborator of four decades) and David Peterson, with a [...]
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‘Left-wing’ genocide denial
Posted: June 15, 2011 in Bosnia, genocide, genocide reviews, Rwanda, the left2
Mladic, bin Laden and the future of international justice
Posted: June 1, 2011 in Bosnia, Global War on Terror, international justiceA new article on openDemocracy.
New 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 [...]
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 [...]
The Arab Spring: Protest, Power, Prospect
Posted: April 6, 2011 in Arab world, globalization and democratisationMy contribution to this new openDemocracy forum. What a difference six weeks make. In mid-February 2011, largely peaceful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt seemed to be spreading throughout the Arab world, notably in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya. In early April, Bahrain has seen repeated violent repression, Yemen massacres of protesters, and the Libyan revolution has [...]
Libya: popular revolt, military intervention
Posted: March 24, 2011 in Arab world, globalization and democratisation, war and peacePublished on openDemocracy, 7 April 2011. This replaces an earlier draft published on this site. In mid-February 2011, the protests which began the Libyan revolution seemed to demonstrate the unstoppable progress of people power. It seemed that even Gaddafi’s kleptocratic and personalised regime – which unlike Tunisia or Egypt never allowed space for civil society [...]
The global democratic revolution: a new stage
Posted: March 7, 2011 in Arab world, globalization and democratisationMy take on the historic significance of the Arab revolutions on openDemocracy.net (written before the unfolding of the Libyan crisis). The epic events across the Arab world in the first months of 2011, diverse and many-sided as they are, can be understood as a single episode: the latest phase in the worldwide democratic revolution which [...]
Darfur: counter-insurgency, forced displacement and genocide
Posted: March 1, 2011 in Africa, genocide, genocide reviewsNew article published in the British Journal of Sociology, 62, 1, 2011. Click here to view a draft version.
Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (2)
Posted: February 22, 2011 in anti-semitism and racism, genocide, Israel / PalestineThe genocide psychologist, Israel Charny, having read my exchange with Omer Bartov in the Journal of Genocide Research, first posted an abusive, defamatory rant against me (on the International Association of Genocide listserve), including accusing me of ‘anti-Semitism’. The President of the IAGS, Professor William Schabas, quickly apologized for the inadvertent publication of this abuse. [...]
