Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns in the Transitions of th

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Genocide can be assumed to be a problem of dictatorial regimes. This book shows that targeted violence against population groups is a much larger problem, that patterns of genocide depend on international contexts, and that genocide in the modern world can be stimulated as well as constrained by global change.

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Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political and cultural context in which the field has developed. In particular, a narrow vision of comparative studies has been influential in which genocide is viewed mainly as a 'domestic' phenomenon of states. This book emphasizes the international context of genocide, seeking to specify more precisely the relationships between genocide and the international system. Shaw aims to re-interpret the classical European context of genocide in this frame, to provide a comprehensive international perspective on Cold War and post-Cold War genocide, and to re-evaluate the key transitions of the end of the Second World War and the end of the Cold War.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Review

'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

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A comprehensive new approach to modern genocide, providing the first systematic treatment in the context of international relations.

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"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, Professor of Global and Colonial History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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A comprehensive new approach to modern genocide, providing the first systematic treatment in the context of international relations.

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Genocide can be assumed to be a problem of dictatorial regimes. This book shows that targeted violence against population groups is a much larger problem, that patterns of genocide depend on international contexts, and that genocide in the modern world can be stimulated as well as constrained by global change.

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Genocide can be assumed to be a problem of dictatorial regimes. This book shows that targeted violence against population groups is a much larger problem, that patterns of genocide depend on international contexts, and that genocide in the modern world can be stimulated as well as constrained by global change.

Details ISBN0521125170 Author Martin Shaw Year 2013 ISBN-10 0521125170 ISBN-13 9780521125178 Media Book Format Paperback Publisher Cambridge University Press Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 327.16 Birth 1947 Pages 246 Publication Date 2013-09-19 Short Title GENOCIDE & INTL RELATIONS Language English UK Release Date 2013-09-19 AU Release Date 2013-09-19 NZ Release Date 2013-09-19 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; Printed music items Alternative 9780521110136 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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