A new Open Democracy piece on the leaked UN report and the latest in Chomskyan genocide denial. Translations by Tlaxcala: La politique du génocide : Rwanda et République Démocratique du Congo La política del genocidio: Ruanda y la RD del Congo Die politische Dimension von Völkermorden: Ruanda & DR Kongo
The Holocaust, genocide studies and modern politics
A report and commentary on debates at two conferences this summer, involving Omer Bartov, Dirk Moses and others, for openDemocracy.
Interview on the ‘global state’ with the Italian paper Avvenire, 21 August 2010
English text of the interview with Damiano Palano (the published Italian version is in the PDF attached at the foot of this text): 1. When many spoke of 'unipolar age' or of ‘Empire’, you argued instead that the “West” was a “Global State”. But today the “Global State” is experiencing a deep political crisis. Is… Continue reading Interview on the ‘global state’ with the Italian paper Avvenire, 21 August 2010
The ‘global state’ after 9/11: new introduction for the Italian edition (2004).doc
Text of the new Introduction to my Theory of the Global State, published in the Italian edition (2004), and referred to in the following interview with Avvenire, 21 August 2010. Attached: Introduction to the Italian edition.doc
Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide
Here is a draft of this paper, the final version of which has now been published in Holy Land Studies, 9, 1, May 2010, and presented to the International Network of Genocide Scholars' conference at the University of Sussex on 30 June 2010. Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide.doc
Fred Halliday 1946-2010
A belated posting of my appreciation, published by Open Democracy
Review of Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
For the British Journal of Sociology - click here for text
My review of a new biography of Raphael Lemkin, inventor of the idea of genocide
published in European History Quarterly 40, 2, 2010 (scroll down for review) Review of Cooper, Lemkin, for European History Quarterly.pdf
My article on Sri Lanka published in Turkish
Brighton’s Green MP
Congratulations to Caroline Lucas, elected for Brighton Pavilion as Britain's first Green member of parliament, in the general election on May 6 - a small but significant development in the context of the otherwise indecisive results (on which I will comment further once the outcome of coalition negotiations is clear). All I want to say… Continue reading Brighton’s Green MP
Martin Shaw 