Martin Shaw

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2007 (forthcoming)

What is Genocide? Cambridge: Polity.

‘When war is not war: Western and terrorist ways of war in the era of global surveillance warfare’, in Richard Keeble, Sarah Maltby and Frank Webster, eds, Communicating War. Cambridge Scholars Press. 

' "Risikotransfer-Militarismus" und die Relegitimierung des Krieges in der Weltgesellschaft(translated by Kai Hebel),  in Thorsten Bonacker, ed., Konflikte der Weltgesellschaft, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

'The political structure of a global world: the role of the United States', in Nayan Chanda and Bruce Mazlish, eds, The United States in a Global Historical Perspective, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

‘War and Genocide: A Sociological Approach’, in Jacques Semelin, ed., Online Encyclopaedia of Genocides and Massacres

2006

‘War and Shrinking Cities’, in Philipp Oswalt and Tim Rieniets, eds, Atlas of Shrinking Cities/Atlas der Schrumpfenden Städte, Berlin: Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

‘The Sources of Social Power and the Sociology of Genocide’ (review article on Michael Mann), Sociology, 40, 1, 177-83.

'Violence' and 'War' in Bryan Turner, ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2005

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq Cambridge: Polity. 

Global Activism, Global Media, edited with Wilma de Jong and Neil Stammers, London: Pluto and Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

'Risk-transfer militarism and the legitimacy of war after Iraq', in Paul Eden and Thérèse O'Donnell, eds, 11 September 2001: A Turning Point in International and Domestic Law? Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers.

'War and militarism' in Austin Harrington, Barbara Marshall and Hans-Peter Müller, eds., Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, London: Routledge.

2004

'New wars of the city: "urbicide" and "genocide"' in Steve Graham, ed., Cities, War, and Terrorism, Oxford: Blackwell, 141-53.

'Internationalisation of the state', in Wolfgang Fritz Haug, ed., Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Berlin.     

2003

War and Genocide: Organized Killing in Modern Society, Cambridge: Polity

'Strategy and Slaughter', Review of International Studies, 29, 2, 2003, 269-78: draft online

'The Global Transformation of the Social Sciences', in Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier and Marlies Glasius, eds, Global Civil Society Yearbook 2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 35-44.

'Global Politics After the Cold War' in Mary Hawkesworth and Maurice Kogan, editors, Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, Second edition, London: Routledge.

'Guerre et globalité: le rôle et le caractère de la guerre à l'intérieur de la transition globale' in Pierre Hassner and Roland Marchal, eds, Guerres et sociétés: Etat et violence après la Guerre Froide. Paris: Editions Karthala

'El papel y el carácter de la guerra en la transición global', in Eduardo Andrés, Sandoval Forero y Robinson Salazar Pérez, América Latina: Conflicto, Violencia y Paz en el Siglo XXI, Mexico City: Librosenred, 2003, 15-44 

2002 

'The Historical Transition of Our Times: The Question of Globality in Historical Sociology', in John Hobson and Steve Hobden, eds, Historical Sociology and International Relations, 82-88, and in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, XIV, 2, 2001, 273-89

 'Risk-transfer militarism, small massacres and the historic legitimacy of war', International Relations, 17, 3, 343-60.

Ten challenges to anti-war politics Radical Philosophy 111 (Jan/Feb 2002), 11-19

'Post-Imperial and Quasi-Imperial: State and Empire in the Global Era', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 31, 2, 327-36.

'Exploring imperia: Western-global power amidst the wars of quasi-imperial states', www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/212shaw.htm

2001 

 'The Unfinished Global Revolution: Intellectuals and the New Politics of International Relations', Review of International Studies, 27, 1, 1-21

Justice for the victims of massacre and war, www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/justpeace/110shaw.htm

A regressive crystallisation of global state power, www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/109shaw.htm

Progressive politics in Bush's global state? Renewal: the journal of Labour politics, 9, 4, 2001, 92-96

A confession from the amoral left  www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/justpeace/112shaw.htm

Review article on war and humanitarian emergencies, Journal of Development Studies, 17, 5, 154-59

'Media and Public Opinion in International Relations', in Briggite Nacos and Robert Shapiro, eds, Decision-Making in a Glass House: Media, Public Opinion and American and European Foreign Policy, Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield

'Democracy and Peace in the Global Revolution', in Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, eds., Democracy, Liberalism and War: Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debate, Boulder: Lynne Rienner

'Global society' in the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, London: Routledge, pp 606-07

2000

Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution December, from Cambridge University Press 

'Crystallizations of media in the global revolution: news coverage and power from Kurdistan to Kosova', in Brigitte Nacos and Robert Shapiro, eds, Decision-Making in a Glass House: Media, Public Opinion and American and European Foreign Policy, Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield

'Historical sociology and global transformation', in Ronen Palan, ed, New Theories of the Global Political Economy, Routledge

'The development of the "common-risk" society: a theoretical overview' in Jürgen Kuhlmann and Jean Callaghan (eds.) Military and Society in 21st Century Europe, Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, pp. 13-26 (Russian edition, Moscow: Nauchnaya Kniga 2000), reprinted in Society, 38, 6, September-October 2001, 7-15

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1999

Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Agency and Power, London: Routledge (edited)

Globality as a Revolutionary Transformation in Martin Shaw, ed, Politics and Globalisation, Routledge

'War and Society', in John W Chambers II, ed, The Oxford Companion to American Military History, New York: Oxford University Press

'The Political Meaning of Global Change', International Politics, 36, 429-34.

'Civil Society' in Lester Kurtz, ed, Encyclopaedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 269-78 (offprints available: email me)

‘The Kosovan War, 1998-99: State, War and Genocide in the Global Revolution’, Sociological Research Online, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/

'War and Globality: The Role and Character of War in the Global Transition' in Ho-Won Jeong, ed,The New Agenda for Peace Research, Ashgate, pp. 61-80

'The State of International Relations', in Sarah Owen Vandersluis (ed.), The State and Identity Construction in International Relations, Macmillan, pp. 7-30

'Global Voices: Civil Society and the Media in Global Crises', in Timothy Dunne and Nicholas J Wheeler, eds, Human Rights in Global Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 214-32

'The Global Revolution and the Challenge of the Twenty-First Century: From International Relations to Global Politics' in Stephen Chan and Jarrod Wiener, eds, Twentieth Century International History, IB Taurus, pp. 191-210

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1998

'The Historical Sociology of the Future', Review of International Political Economy, 5, 2, pp 322-27

'Die Reprasentation ferner Konflikte und die globale Zivilgesellschaft', in Ulrich Beck, ed, Perspektiven der Weltgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, pp 221-56

'The Theoretical Challenge of Global Society' in Sreberny-Mohhammadi, Winseck, McKenna and Boyd-Barrett, eds, Media in Global Context, London: Edward Arnold (extract from Global Society and International Relations, 1994)

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1997

'Conscription and Citizenship' in Anthony Giddens, ed, Sociology: Introductory Readings, Cambridge: Polity (extract from Post-Military Society, 1991)

'The State of Globalization: towards a theory of state transformation' Review of International Political Economy, 4, 3, Autumn, pp 497-513

'Globalization and post-military democracy', in Anthony McGrew, ed, The Transformation of Democracy, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp 26-48

'From Public Issues to Private Troubles', in Chet Ballard, Jon Gubbay and Christopher Middleton, eds, A Student's Companion to Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, pp 31-38

'Nueva guerras urbanas', Dos, dos: revista sobre las cuidades, 2, Vallidolid, Spain, pp 67-75. English text, New wars of the city, available to download.

'Past Wars and Present Conflicts: From the Second World War to the Gulf', in Martin Lunn and Ken Evans, eds, War and Memory in the Twentieth Century, Leamington Spa: Berg, pp 191-205

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1996

Civil Society and Media in Global Crises, London: Pinter

'Nova Varnostna Razprava in Druzbene Spremembe' (The New Security Debate and Social Transformations), translated by Marjan Malesic, in Malesic, ed, Razvoj Obramboslovne Misli, Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, pp 13-32

'Global Society and Global Responsibility: The Theoretical, Historical and Political Limits of International Society', in Rick Fawn and Jeremy Larkins, eds, International Society after the Cold War: Anarchy and Order Reconsidered, London: Macmillan, pp 47-62

1995

'Military, State and Society in the 21st Century: Challenges of the Fragmentary Peace', in Harold Gillman and Detlef Herold, eds, Democratic and Civil Control over Armed Forces, Rome: NATO Defense College, pp 55-68

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1994

Global Society and International Relations: Sociological Concepts and Political Perspectives, Cambridge: Polity Full text available to download.

'Civil Society and Global Politics: Beyond a Social Movements Approach', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 23, 3, Winter, pp 647-68

'Self-determination: Comments on Subaidi', in DAC Freestone, ed, Self-determination: A Symposium, Hull: University of Hull Law School

'Churches and War: Surveys of Attitudes during the Gulf Conflict' (with Roy Carr-Hill), in Peter G Forster, ed, Contemporary Mainstream Christianity, Aldershot: Gower, pp

'Theses on a Post-Military Europe: Conscription, Citizenship and Militarism after the Cold War', in Chris Rootes and Howard Davis, eds, A New Europe: Social Change and Political Transformation, London: UCL Press, pp 55-71

'Towards a Global Policy for Labour', Renewal: A Journal of Labour Politics, 2, 1, pp 30-9

The Global State and the Politics of Intervention, London: Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE, 15 pp

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1993

'The Denial of Death', Peace Review, 5:1, pp 35-41 (with Roy Carr-Hill)

War and Peace Politics, London: Signs of the Times Discussion Paper, 4 pp

'The failure of international law in its wider context: comments on Rehman', in DAC Freestone, ed, Humanitarian Intervention in Former Yugoslavia, University of Hull European Community Research Unit, 2 pp

'"There is no such thing as society": beyond individualism and statism in international security studies', Review of International Studies, 19, 2, April, pp 159-76

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1992

'Global society and global responsibility: the theoretical, analytical and practical limits of international society', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 21, 3, Winter, pp 421-34 (republished in Rick Fawns and Jeremy Larkins, eds, International Society After the Cold War: Anarchy and Order Reconsidered, Macmillan, 1996).

War is Over? The Left and the New World Order, London: Democratic Left Discussion Paper, 7 pp

'Public Opinion and Media War Coverage in Britain', in Hamid Mowlana, George W. Gerbner and Herbert Schiller, eds, Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf. A Global Perspective, Boulder, Colorado: Westview (with Roy Carr-Hill)

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1991

Post-Military Society: Demilitarization, militarism and war at the end of the twentieth century, Cambridge: Polity Available by mail order.
State and Society in International Relations (edited with Michael Banks), Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf

'Mass Media and Attitudes to the Gulf War in Britain' in Michael Morgan, ed, 'The Media and the Gulf War', special issue of The Electronic Journal of Communication /La Revue Electronique de Communication, Montreal (with Roy Carr-Hill), http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v2n191.htm

Public Opinion, Media and Violence: Attitudes to the Gulf War in a Local Population, Hull: Hull University Gulf War Project, 42 pp (with Roy Carr-Hill)

'State Theory and the Post-Cold War World', in Shaw, M & Banks, M (eds) State and Society in International Relations, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, pp 1-24.

'Total War and the Theory of the State', in Shaw, M. & Banks, M. (eds) State and Society in International Relations, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, pp.

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1990

'Strategy and Social Process: lessons from strategic studies', Sociology, 24, 3, August, pp 465-73, extract republished in David Morgan and Liz Stanley, eds, Debates in Sociology, Manchester: MUP, 1994.

'From Total War to Democratic Peace: exterminism and historical pacifism', in H Kaye and K McClelland, eds, E P Thompson: Critical Debates, Cambridge: Polity, pp 233-51

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1989

'War and the Nation-State', in D Held and J Thompson, eds, Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and his Critics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

'Ideen uber Krieg und Militarisierung in der Gesellschaftstheorie des Späten Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts', translated by H Joas, in H Joas and H Steiner, eds, Machtpolitischer Realismus und Pazifistische Utopie: Krieg und Frieden in der Geschichte der Sozialwissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, pp 383-308

'Great Britain', in Philip G Altbach, ed, Student Political Activism: An International Reference Handbook, Westport: Conn., Greenwood, pp 237-48

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1988

Dialectics of War: An Essay on the Social Theory of War and Peace, London: Pluto.

'The Real Sociology of War: A reply to Roger Scruton', British Journal of Sociology, XXXIX, 4, December, pp 615-8

'The End of Regimentation: Socialism's Second Chance', Detente: A quarterly journal devoted to understanding the Soviet Union, 13, pp 14-16.

'In Defence of "Historical Pacifism"', European Nuclear Disarmament Journal, October-January, pp 34-5

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1987

Sociology of War and Peace (edited with Colin Creighton), London: Macmillan

'Marxism, War and Peace in Britain, 1895-1945', in Richard Taylor and Nigel Young, eds., Campaigns for Peace: Peace movements in Britain in the twentieth century, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp 49-72

'The Rise and Fall of the Military-Democratic State: Britain 1940-85', in C Creighton and M Shaw, eds, The Sociology of War and Peace, London: Macmillan, pp 143-58

'Introduction' in C Creighton and M Shaw, eds, The Sociology of War and Peace, London: Macmillan, pp 1-13 (with Colin Creighton)

1986

The Student Movements of the 1960s: A view from the 1980s, Hull: Hull University Occasional Papers in Sociology and Social Anthropology, No 2, 36 pp

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1985

Marxist Sociology Revisited (edited), London: Macmillan, 1985

'Sociology and the Crisis of Marxism', in M Shaw, ed, Marxist Sociology Revisited: Critical Assessments, London: Macmillan, pp 1-20

'Marxism, the State and Politics', in M Shaw, ed, Marxist Sociology Revisited: Critical Assessments, London: Macmillan, pp 246-68

1984

War, State and Society (edited), London: Macmillan, 1984

'Marxism and the Problem of Law and Order in Britain', in P Norton, ed, Law and Order in British Politics, Aldershot: Gower, pp 179-92

'War: The End of the Dialectic?', Journal of Area Studies, 9, pp 1-4

'War and Social Theory', in M Shaw, ed, War, State and Society, London: Macmillan, pp 1-24

'War, Imperialism and the State System: A critique of orthodox Marxism for the 1980s', in M Shaw, ed, War, State and Society, London: Macmillan, pp 47-60

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1982

Review article of Jacoby, Dialectic of Defeat and Gouldner, The Two Marxisms, Theory, Culture and Society, 1, 2, Autumn, pp 120-3

1981

Socialism and Militarism, Nottingham: Spokesman, 34 pp

1979

'The Social Roots of Statistical Knowledge', in J Irvine, I Miles and J Evans, eds, Demystifying Social Statistics, London: Pluto, pp 27-38 (with Ian Miles)

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1978

'The Making of a Party? The International Socialists 1965-76', The Socialist Register 1978, London: Merlin, pp 100-45

1976

'New Empirical Marxisms', Sociology, 10, 3, September, pp 519-23

1975

Marxism and Social Science: The Roots of Social Knowledge London: Pluto

1974

Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading London, Pluto

'The Theory of the State and Politics: A central paradox of Marxism', Economy and Society, 3, 4, November, pp 429-50

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1971

The Coming Crisis of Radical Sociology, New Left Review 70, November -December; reprinted in R Blackburn, ed, Ideology in Social Science, London: Fontana, 1972, pp 33-44

'Understanding Sociology', The Spokesman, 19-20, December 1971-January 1972, pp 61-65

1968

'Christianity and Marxism', Slant, 19, February-March, pp 3-10

1967

'Socialism: class struggle or intellectual movement?', Slant, 16, August-September, 3-7

'On Students', New Left Review 44, July, 87–88.

1966

'Class, movement, party', Slant, 10, August-September, 3-9

'Class, movement and party: A reply to Penrose', Slant, 12, December 1966-January 1967, pp 10-11

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