WHAT IS GENOCIDE? Second Edition Cambridge: Polity, 2015
Fully revised an updated edition of my 2007 classic. This edition includes a new chapter on Raphael Lemkin, significantly extending my critique of his approach in the light of recent research, as well as fuller treatment of the idea of ‘structure’ in understanding genocide.
The new edition also improves the presentation of the work and its suitability for teaching.
GENOCIDE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Changing Patterns in the Upheavals of the Late Modern World Cambridge University Press 2013
Historical study of genocide in changing international contexts, from colonization to European genocide, to Cold War, decolonizing and post-colonial genocide, and the genocidal violence of today’s messy civil wars and democratizations.
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WAR AND GENOCIDE: ORGANIZED KILLING IN MODERN SOCIETY 2003
CIVIL SOCIETY AND MEDIA IN GLOBAL CRISES: REPRESENTING DISTANT VIOLENCE 1996
POST-MILITARY SOCIETY: DEMILITARIZATION, MILITARISM AND WAR AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1991
DIALECTICS OF WAR: AN ESSAY ON THE SOCIAL THEORY OF WAR AND PEACE 1988
What is Genocide? Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award
This book proposes a way through the confusion surrounding the idea of genocide: ‘a model of conceptual clarity and cogent argument’ (Michael Mann). Makes ‘genocide a viable category with which to understand perhaps the most disturbing aspects of the past and present world’ (Dirk A. Moses) ‘This is an excellent, exciting book. It is one of the books everyone should read – especially in the field of genocide studies – and most genocide scholars and students will probably do so.’ (James Gow, Journal of Genocide Research) ‘There is much to be admired in this book. It is rigorous and robust and puts forth a compelling case. … Shaw’s idea of genocide as a form of warfare … is rich, compelling and important.’ (Alex Bellamy, International Affairs) See also Pablo Veyrat in War and Media Network, Brian Brivati in Democratiya
Read Chapter 2, Neglected Foundations: Genocide as Social Destruction and its Connections with War
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