A short paper published by Global Dialogue (paywall). The spectre of genocide is always that of a repeat of the last genocide. Many Israelis, faced with the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon, fear a 'second Holocaust'. The UN works to prevent 'another Rwanda', and genocide campaigners believe that one happened in Darfur. Genocide politics… Continue reading Understanding Today’s Genocides – The Snare of Analogy
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Palestine and Genocide Revisited
The difficulties of serious debate about Palestine: this short commentary has just appeared in Holy Land Studies (12, 1, 2013, 1-8; below is a draft version). The same issue includes an excellent piece by Farid Abdel-Nour, 'From Critic to Cheerleader: The Clarifying Example of Benny Morris' "Conversion"', the clarification being relevant to all who try to… Continue reading Palestine and Genocide Revisited
Historical Sociology and International Relations: The Question of Genocide
A new piece just published in the journal e-International Relations Although most International Relations scholars recognise in principle the historical variability of their subject matter, IR theory is often written as though relatively timeless qualities of the modern international system are the most significant. The system is commonly described as ‘Westphalian’, as though the principles… Continue reading Historical Sociology and International Relations: The Question of Genocide
Genocide and International Relations: new book
I have now finished the final corrections to Genocide and International Relations, and Cambridge University Press expect to have copies available in October. This book moves on from the conceptual focus of What is Genocide? (2007) to develop an interpretation of historical and contemporary patterns. With the subtitle Changing Patterns in the Upheavals of the Late Modern World,… Continue reading Genocide and International Relations: new book
Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust, review
A draft of my review of this important new book, published this month in the Journal of Genocide Research, 15, 2, 2013. Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain. New York: Harper, 2012. What happened in Spain in the 1930s has hardly been reckoned with in that country even eight decades… Continue reading Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust, review
What is Genocide? video
I have recorded a video, What is Genocide?, summarising my views on the meaning of genocide. This is based on the arguments of my 2007 book of the same title. This is the first video on my YouTube channel, martinshaw34. Forthcoming videos will deal with the arguments of my new book, Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns in the… Continue reading What is Genocide? video
Genocide in Latin America during the Cold War: book review
Draft of my review of Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, and Daniel Feierstein (eds.), State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years. London: Routledge, 2010. To appear in Democracy and Security, September 2012. Latin America was the site of much political violence in the Cold War period but - apart from the… Continue reading Genocide in Latin America during the Cold War: book review
Once more on ‘left-wing’ genocide denial
The Guardian journalist George Monbiot has written a further article, 'See No Evil', on the denial by Edward Herman and David Peterson of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995, in their book The Politics of Genocide which includes a supportive Preface by Noam Chomsky. Monbiot is responding… Continue reading Once more on ‘left-wing’ genocide denial
The United States and ‘atrocity prevention’
Draft of new article for openDemocracy.net In a speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), President Barack Obama has launched a ‘comprehensive strategy’ to ‘prevent and respond to atrocities’. He has charged his new Atrocities Prevention Board (APB), chaired by Samantha Power (author of an indictment of earlier US inaction on genocide) with… Continue reading The United States and ‘atrocity prevention’
Review of Bosnia Remade and Balkan Genocides
Draft review for the Journal of Genocide Research Gerard Toal and Carl C. Dahlmann, Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 978-0-19-973036-0. Paul Mojzes, Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011, 978-1-4422-0663-2. The anti-population violence during the Bosnian War of 1992-95 was,… Continue reading Review of Bosnia Remade and Balkan Genocides
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