The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and international lawyers who invoke it and Western governments and media that deny it.


The idea has now been part of global politics and intellectual life for eighty years, but attitudes to it have waxed and waned according to political circumstances and intellectual fashion, with its meaning becoming unclear and contested. Recently, influential thinkers have argued that the term has become redundant.


This book, by the foremost sociological theorist of genocide, defends the concept and argues that in the current period it is urgent to make it more coherent, restoring it to a central place in thinking about mass atrocities. Examining genocide in Gaza, in the Russian attempt to eliminate Ukraine, and the longer histories of Palestine and British complicity, together with the problem of ‘political groups’ as targets, this book brings the debate up to date and is essential reading for all concerned with the problem.
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The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and international lawyers who invoke it and Western governments and media that deny it.


The idea has now been part of global politics and intellectual life for eighty years, but attitudes to it have waxed and waned according to political circumstances and intellectual fashion, with its meaning becoming unclear and contested. Recently, influential thinkers have argued that the term has become redundant.


This book, by the foremost sociological theorist of genocide, defends the concept and argues that in the current period it is urgent to make it more coherent, restoring it to a central place in thinking about mass atrocities. Examining genocide in Gaza, in the Russian attempt to eliminate Ukraine, and the longer histories of Palestine and British complicity, together with the problem of ‘political groups’ as targets, this book brings the debate up to date and is essential reading for all concerned with the problem.
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The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza

The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza

by Martin Shaw
The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza

The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza

by Martin Shaw

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The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and international lawyers who invoke it and Western governments and media that deny it.


The idea has now been part of global politics and intellectual life for eighty years, but attitudes to it have waxed and waned according to political circumstances and intellectual fashion, with its meaning becoming unclear and contested. Recently, influential thinkers have argued that the term has become redundant.


This book, by the foremost sociological theorist of genocide, defends the concept and argues that in the current period it is urgent to make it more coherent, restoring it to a central place in thinking about mass atrocities. Examining genocide in Gaza, in the Russian attempt to eliminate Ukraine, and the longer histories of Palestine and British complicity, together with the problem of ‘political groups’ as targets, this book brings the debate up to date and is essential reading for all concerned with the problem.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788218733
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Publication date: 11/25/2025
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. The return of the genocide idea


PART I Twenty-First Century Genocide


2. Genocide in history and in our time


3. Dynamics of war and genocide in Ukraine


PART II Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine


4. The Gaza War-Genocide


5. The structure of genocide in Palestine


PART III Conceptual and Historical Challenges


6. In defence of the genocide idea: a critique of Dirk Moses


7. “Political groups”, class and genocide


8. Britain and genocide: structures of complicity


Conclusion: theses on genocide thought and action after Gaza
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