Genocide and International Relations

Martin Shaw is a historical sociologist specialising in global politics, war and genocide. He is Research Professor of International Relations at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Professorial Fellow in International Relations and Human Rights at Roehampton University, London, and Emeritus Professor of Sussex University. Shaw's books What is Genocide? (2007) and War and Genocide: Organized Killing in Modern Society (2003) have established him as a major authority in the genocide field. He is the author of several books on war, most recently The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq (2005) and Civil Society and Media in Global Crises: Representing Distant Violence (1996), and on global change, notably Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His website is martinshaw.org.

'A pioneer scholar of globalization and contemporary warfare, Martin Shaw now focuses his sharp eye on international relations and genocide. This book's marrying of these fields challenges both theorists and historians to rethink the categories and temporalities of their analysis. It is an important innovation.' A. Dirk Moses, European University Institute, Florence

• Introduction; Part I. Perspectives: 1. Emancipating genocide research; 2. Fallacies of the comparative genocide paradigm; 3. World-historical perspectives: international and colonial; Part II. Twentieth-Century Genocide: 4. European genocide: inter-imperial crisis and world war; 5. The 1948 Convention and the transition in genocide; 6. Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial genocide; 7. The end of the Cold War and genocide; Part III. New Patterns of Genocide: 8. Genocide in political and armed conflict: theoretical issues; 9. Genocide in twenty-first-century regional and global relations; 10. Conclusions: history and future of genocide.