I have a chapter on 'Genocide and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations' in Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov's new Handbook of Global Security Policy. It's a pretty pessimistic chapter, as I record the way in which the emergence of global policy towards genocide has been confined by geopolitics. Developments since I wrote, such as today's widespread… Continue reading New chapter on global policy towards genocide
My new article published on openDemocracy. Some additional comments, not in the openDemocracy version, are indicated by italics. Israel’s slaughter in Gaza must make us all pause and ask whether we should rethink our stance on the Palestine conflict. The killing is presented as a regrettable response to Hamas’s provocations, an almost routine police action… Continue reading Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too
Posted on openDemocracy.net The Ukraine and Gaza crises alike demonstrate the risks of aggressive policy based on short-term calculations. Vladimir Putin and Binyamin Netanyahu's war-as-politics invites damaging long-term consequences. The slaughters in Ukraine and Gaza have one thing in common. Both result from governments authorising violence which is overwhelmingly motivated by domestic politics and appears… Continue reading Russia-Israel: domestic politics and serious blowback
I have a chapter, 'The Concept of Genocide: What Are We Preventing?' in a new book edited by Bert Ingelaere, Stephan Parmentier, Jacques Haers and Barbara Segaert, GENOCIDE, RISK AND RESILIENCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach, just out from Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978 1 137 33242 4 'This collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand… Continue reading Genocide, Risk and Resilience
Entry on Genocide in Oxford Bibliographies, now online http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-9780199756384-0029.xml?rskey=vzO6sR&result=3&q=.
One of my articles has won a prize for the best article in the European Journal of International Relations between 2010 and 2013. From comparative to international genocide studies: The international production of genocide in 20th-century Europe was published in 2012, and covers some of the same ground as my new book Genocide and International… Continue reading Prize-winning article!
My personal take on the Ralph and Ed Miliband saga. A version has also been published on openDemocracy. It is ironic as well as objectionable that the Daily Mail’s notorious piece on the late Ralph Miliband, which has so rebounded on the paper, should have brought into question his British identity. Not only did Ralph,… Continue reading A Very British Marxist – And His Son
My new book is out (even if the Cambridge website still says 'not yet published', it's on Amazon UK including Kindle)! The North American edition will be published next month and you can pre-order now. 'Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have… Continue reading Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World
An excellent institute in Europe's most attractive city - the ideal place to study! Foreign Affairs has just published an interview with me about the Master's programmes at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, where I am Research Professor.
The contradictions of the crisis: on openDemocracy: Syria's war is posing acute problems to western political leaders. The largest-scale use of chemical weapons to date, in opposition-held areas east of Damascus on 21 August 2013, killed over 350 civilians and hospitalised 3,000 more. The crisis this has unleashed is bringing the United States and France… Continue reading Syria and Egypt: genocidal violence, Western response
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