New Age of Genocide

Martin Shaw is Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex and Research Professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals. He has written widely on global politics, war and genocide.

• 1. The return of the genocide ideaPART I Twenty-First Century Genocide2. Genocide in history and in our time3. Dynamics of war and genocide in UkrainePART II Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine4. The Gaza War-Genocide5. The structure of genocide in PalestinePART III Conceptual and Historical Challenges6. In defence of the genocide idea: a critique of Dirk Moses7. “Political groups”, class and genocide8. Britain and genocide: structures of complicityConclusion: theses on genocide thought and action after Gaza

In his compelling new book, Martin Shaw argues that the destruction of Gaza and Ukraine in different ways indicate that genocide is 'returning to the centre of a brutal new constellation of world politics'. A pioneering scholar of war and genocide, he shows how and why the pursuit of permanent security drives the mass destruction of civilian populations and their cultures.