Martin Shaw Iain King and Whit Mason, Peace at any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 303. $27.95. It is a sign of the times that Kosovo can be seen as a partial success of international intervention and rule. Against the backdrop of Iraq, the fact that this… Continue reading Review of King and Mason, Peace at any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo, for International History Review, 2007
Author: Martin Shaw
Review of Bell, The First Total War, for JGR, 2007
David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-618-34965-4, 0-618-34965-0, 420 pp, $27. This book deserves its modest celebrity, not so much because it expresses the new, post-Iraq scepticism towards war - the connections are explicit but not particularly… Continue reading Review of Bell, The First Total War, for JGR, 2007
Review of Moses and Stone, eds, Colonialism and Genocide, for JGR, 2007
Dirk A. Moses and Dan Stone, editors, Colonialism and Genocide, London: Routledge, 2007, ISBN 0-415-40066-X The relationship between colonialism and genocide is becoming an ever more important topic in genocide studies, and the republication in book form of this seminal issue of Patterns of Prejudice is a very welcome event. Although, as a collection of… Continue reading Review of Moses and Stone, eds, Colonialism and Genocide, for JGR, 2007
Review of Straus, The Order of Genocide, in World Politics, 2007
The Order of Genocide. By Scott Straus. Cornell University Press, 2006. 273p. $27.95 cloth. Studies of the 1994 Rwandan genocide have moved, Scott Straus argues, beyond simplistic interpretations in terms of ‘tribal’ or ‘ancient’ hatreds (interpretations that were, in truth, more those of the media and politicians than of the early academic literature) towards a… Continue reading Review of Straus, The Order of Genocide, in World Politics, 2007
Review of Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide and Bloxham, Genocide, The World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe, for JGR, 2008
Dan Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008, 640 pp. ISBN 978 1 4039 9219 2 (cloth). Donald Bloxham, Genocide, The World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe, London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, 268 pp. ISBN 978 0 85303 720 0 (cloth), 978 0 85303 721 7 (paper).… Continue reading Review of Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide and Bloxham, Genocide, The World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe, for JGR, 2008
Review of Fournet, The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide, for Journal of Genocide Research 2008
The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide: Their Impact on Collective Memory Caroline Fournet Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007 208 pp, $99.95 (hbk) Few, if any, genocide scholars doubt that there are defects in the Genocide Convention, but Caroline Fournet’s committed and often forceful argument moves the discussion beyond some of the most commonly noted… Continue reading Review of Fournet, The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide, for Journal of Genocide Research 2008
Review of Hagan and Rymond-Richmond, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, for British Journal of Sociology, 2009
Hagan, J. and Rymond-Richmond, W. Darfur and the Crime of Genocide Cambridge University Press 2009 269 pp. The attacks of the Janjaweed militia and Sudanese government forces against the non-Arab people of Darfur, which began in 2003 and are still continuing in 2009, constitute the largest-scale genocidal violence anywhere in the world since the Rwandan… Continue reading Review of Hagan and Rymond-Richmond, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, for British Journal of Sociology, 2009
Review of Jacques Sémelin, Purify and Destroy, Journal of Genocide Research, 2009
Genocidal Massacres and the ‘Rarity’ of Genocide Martin Shaw Contribution to the review forum on Jacques Sémelin, Purify and Destroy (London: Hurst, 2007), Journal of Genocide Research, 11, 3, March 2009, pp. 149-63. The paradox of genocide studies is that while an enormous growth in the literature is producing ever richer case and comparative studies,… Continue reading Review of Jacques Sémelin, Purify and Destroy, Journal of Genocide Research, 2009
Review of Chirot and McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? in Contemporary Sociology, 2007
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Murder, by Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 288 pp. $24.95 cloth. ISBN: 0-691-09296-6. Martin Shaw University of Sussex m.shaw@sussex.ac.uk There has been such a rush of general and comparative books on genocide and political violence in recent years that… Continue reading Review of Chirot and McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? in Contemporary Sociology, 2007
Review of Goldhagen, Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, for International Affairs, 2010
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, New York: Little Brown, 2009, 658 pp. ISBN 978-1-58648 -769-0 After a rush of major texts in the last few years, another massive tome on genocide needs a distinctive take if it is to find an audience. Daniel Goldhagen's new book… Continue reading Review of Goldhagen, Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, for International Affairs, 2010
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