Martin Shaw

books

What is Genocide? Cambridge: Polity 2007.

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq Cambridge: Polity 2005.

Global Activism, Global Media, edited with Wilma de Jong and Neil Stammers, London: Pluto and Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2005.

War and Genocide Cambridge: Polity 2003.

Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000.

Italian translation, with new introduction, 2004; German translation pending.

Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Agency and Power, London: Routledge, 1999 (edited)

Civil Society and Media in Global Crises, London: Pinter, 1996

The role of national and global civil society, press and television in the Gulf War and the Kurdish refugee crisis of 1991.

 
Global Society and International Relations: Sociological Concepts and Political Perspectives, Cambridge: Polity, 1994
Full text online.

A collection of key essays on global society, the nation-state, security and IR theory. Paperback is available by mail order.

 
Post-Military Society: Demilitarization, militarism and war at the end of the twentieth century, Cambridge: Polity, 1991

Theory and analysis of the transformation of war and militarism in the second half of the twentieth century. This book is available by mail order.

State and Society in International Relations (edited with Michael Banks), Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991
 
Dialectics of War: An Essay in the Social Theory of Total War and Peace, London: Pluto, 1988.

Sociology of War and Peace (edited with Colin Creighton), London: Macmillan, 1987

Marxist Sociology Revisited (edited), London: Macmillan, 1985
 
War, State and Society (edited), London: Macmillan, 1984

Marxism and Social Science: The Roots of Social Knowledge, London: Pluto, 1975

Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading, London, Pluto, 1974

 

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