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My review of Luttwak & Shamir’s book on the Israel Defence Forces
Published just before 7 October, it can now be read in the light of Israel's destruction of Gaza. For the new Berlin Review, in English and with a German translation. blnreview.de/ausgaben/04-2024/martin-shaw-israels-militaerdoktrin-luttwak-shamir-idf
The International Court of Justice on Gaza: ‘Good, but Not Good Enough’
My new piece for Byline Times.
Inescapably Genocidal: my article opens new open-access Journal of Genocide Research forum on Gaza
Full article: 'Inescapably Genocidal' — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2300555
Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Gaza
I've signed this Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Mass Violence in Israel and Palestine since 7 October. — Read on contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/statement-of-scholars-7-october/
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza – my latest
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza — Read on mailchi.mp/newlinesmag/genocide-in-gaza
Genocide and war (audio)
All 57 minutes of my recent talk 'The Problem of Genocide (In War and Terrorism)' at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St Andrews, can be listened to here.
Response to claims of ‘bias’ in genocide research
I have coauthored the following article: Goldberg, Amos; Kehoe, Thomas J.; Moses, A. Dirk; Segal, Raz; Shaw, Martin; and Wolf, Gerhard (2016) "Israel Charny’s Attack on the Journal of Genocide Research and its Authors: A Response," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 10: Iss. 2: 3-22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.10.2.1436. Available at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol10/iss2/4. View article here Abstract: Israel Charny has published… Continue reading Response to claims of ‘bias’ in genocide research
New edition of What is Genocide?
The Second Edition of my What is Genocide? has just been published by Polity Press. Fully revised, it includes a new chapter with an extended critical assessment of Lemkin, development of the argument on 'structure' and genocide, and improved presentation for teaching purposes. 20% discount and examination copies are available via this link: What is Genocide… Continue reading New edition of What is Genocide?
A century of genocide: Armenia 1915, Syria-Iraq 2015
Today, April 24th 2015, is being commemorated as the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, in which over a million Armenians from what is now Eastern Turkey died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, directed by the leaders of the Turkish nationalist party. Since modern Turkey continues to deny the 1915 genocide - in the… Continue reading A century of genocide: Armenia 1915, Syria-Iraq 2015
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