Martin Shaw

War

and

Genocide

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003

Contents: CHAPTERS listed below, also EPISODES and TABLES AND BOXES

Acknowledgements and Introduction

1 War and slaughter

Mass killing / War / Degenerate war / Categories of violence / Revolution as war

2 Genocide as a form of war

Destruction / Intention / A form of war / On slaughter

3 Organizing violence

State power / Systems and politics / World war to world order? / Future wars

4 Producing destruction

Industrialism and war / New technology, new war economy / Economy of slaughter zones

5 Thinking war

Ideologies of war and peace / Cultures of slaughter / Nations and nationalism / Race and gender / Media of war

6 Killing spaces

Historic battlefields / Modern killing spaces / Global era slaughter space / Media as battlespace

7 Combatants and participants

Combatants and non-combatants / Armed forces / New killing forces / Social groups and war-participation

8 Victims

Victimhood and its appropriation / From battlefield to civilian death / Military logic in genocide / Ethnic and cosmopolitan victims / Gendered violence / Irrationality of slaughter

9 Movements

Resistance / Movement / Change

10 Just peace

Old ways of war / War-management / Demands for justice / From slaughter to safety / Peace and cosmopolitan democracy

EPISODES

I The trenches

II The Armenian genocide

III Stalinism's mass murders

IV Nazism, war and the Holocaust

V Japan's genocidal wars

VI Allied strategic bombing

VII Nuclear war-preparation

VIII The Cambodian genocide

IX Genocidal war in Yugoslavia

X War and genocide in Rwanda

XI The new Western way of war

BOXES AND TABLES

0.1 The core of the argument

1.1 Natural versus social explanations of war

1.2 Clausewitz's theory of war

1.3 The face of battle

1.4 Guerrilla war

2.1 The definition of genocide

2.2 Famine and genocide

2.3 The context of war

2.4 Genocide as a type of war

3.1 Theories of the state

3.2 International relations and war

3.3 War in the development of the state

3.4 Total war and totalitarianism

3.5 From bloc-state to Western-global conglomerate

4.1 Myths about 'economic factors' in wars

4.2 Industrialism, capitalism and militarism

4.3 Classical war economy

4.4 Robbery and genocide

4.5 New political economy of war

5.1 The just war tradition

5.2 Perpetual peace and world government

5.3 Defining militarism

5.4 Varieties of pacifism

5.5 Christianity and war

5.6 Scientists and the bomb

5.7 States of denial

6.1 Sieges, ancient and modern

6.2 Slaughter in total conquest

6.3 Concentration and death camps

6.4 Sanctions: war by other means

6.5 Global media war

6.6 The new terrorism

7.1 Decline of the mass army

7.2 Paramilitaries and warlords

7.3 Class war

7.4 Feminism and militarism

7.5 Post-military mobilization

8.1 A Holocaust industry?

8.2 Direct and indirect casualties of Western war

8.3 What gender tells us about genocide

8.4 Truth, justice and denial in the Yugoslav wars

8.5 Cult of the pure victim

9.1 Non-violence

9.2 Soldiers avoiding slaughter

9.3 A fulcrum of revolution?

9.4 Conscientious objection

9.5 The anti-Vietnam war movement

9.6 From the Western peace movements to 1989

9.7 The transformation of armed struggle

10.1 A future for interstate conflict?

10.2 Humanitarian intervention

10.3 Law of war after 1945

10.4 The new global justice

10.5 Truth and reconciliation?

10.6 Globalization, war and peace

10.7 From the UN to cosmopolitan democracy