The background to and consequences of David Cameron's fateful break with Europe: a new article for openDemocracy.net At the European Union summit in Brussels on 8-9 December 2011, Britain's Conservative prime minister David Cameron refused to agree to a full EU treaty to support new governance for the eurozone. He was alone among representatives of… Continue reading Welcome to Little Tory England
The 9/11 Decade: The Great Interruption
David Hayes, editor, '9/11, Ten Years On: Reflections, openDemocracy, 7 September 2011 - my contribution: The great interruption The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 had a huge impact on world politics in the following decade, but they did not mark a fundamental change like the 1989-91 upheavals or 2011’s extraordinary… Continue reading The 9/11 Decade: The Great Interruption
On the fall of Gaddafi
openDemocracy, 5 September 2011 Libya: the revolution-intervention dynamic The overthrow of the Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya - messy and incomplete though it remains - represents a striking success for the Arab revolt which began only in December 2010. While the movements in Tunisia and Egypt achieved regime change through peaceful protest, that in Libya… Continue reading On the fall of Gaddafi
Darfur and the sociology of genocide
A new debate in the British Journal of Sociology begins from the work of John Hagan and his collaborators and includes commentaries by Tim Allen, Vincent A. De Gaetano, Michael Mann, Claire Moon and Martin Shaw.
‘Left-wing’ genocide denial
George Monbiot has written an interesting take in The Guardian on 'left-wing' denial of the Srebrenica genocidal massacre and the Rwandan genocide, Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers. Monbiot refers to the recent book by Edward Herman (Noam Chomsky's collaborator of four decades) and David Peterson, with a… Continue reading ‘Left-wing’ genocide denial
Mladic, bin Laden and the future of international justice
A new article on openDemocracy.
New article, ‘From Comparative to International Genocide Studies’
New article on International Relations and genocide, now published: Martin Shaw, From Comparative to International Genocide Studies: The International Production of Genocide in Twentieth-Century Europe, European Journal of International Relations, Online First, 11 May 2011 (to be published in the print edition later in 2011 or 2012). Abstract Genocide is widely seen as a phenomenon… Continue reading New article, ‘From Comparative to International Genocide Studies’
The Holocaust, Stalin’s genocides and the future of genocide research
Three new contributions, on related themes, to the new issue of Journal of Genocide Research: 1. Jürgen Matthäus; Martin Shaw; Omer Bartov; Doris Bergen; Donald Bloxham, Donald Bloxham, The Final Solution: A Genocide (review forum), 13, 1 and 2, 2011, 107 - 152. Read a draft of my contribution. 2. Martin Shaw, Jeffrey Alexander et al., Remembering the Holocaust:… Continue reading The Holocaust, Stalin’s genocides and the future of genocide research
The Killing of Bin Laden: Revenge but not Justice
With the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Obama has achieved a much-needed conclusion to nearly ten years' efforts to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to heel. Obama claimed to bring bin Laden 'to justice'. But he managed this only in the sense that George Bush evoked in 2001, when he said that bin Laden… Continue reading The Killing of Bin Laden: Revenge but not Justice
The Arab Spring: Protest, Power, Prospect
My contribution to this new openDemocracy forum. What a difference six weeks make. In mid-February 2011, largely peaceful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt seemed to be spreading throughout the Arab world, notably in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya. In early April, Bahrain has seen repeated violent repression, Yemen massacres of protesters, and the Libyan revolution has… Continue reading The Arab Spring: Protest, Power, Prospect
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