Published 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… Continue reading Libya: popular revolt, military intervention
Month: March 2011
The global democratic revolution: a new stage
My 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… Continue reading The global democratic revolution: a new stage
Darfur: counter-insurgency, forced displacement and genocide
New article published in the British Journal of Sociology, 62, 1, 2011. Click here to view a draft version.
Martin Shaw 