| Post: | Associate Tutor |
| Other posts: | Professor of International Relations (Jvrc) |
| Location: | Arts B B375 |
| Email: | M.Shaw@sussex.ac.uk |
| Personal homepage | |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8032 or 8892 |
| UK: | (01273) 678032 or (01273) 678892 |
| International: | +44 1273 678032 or +44 1273 678892 |
Biography
see also Martin's personal site, www.martinshaw.org, with online texts and courses.Research
war and military power; genocide and political violence; media, civil society and intervention; state and global political change; historical sociology and international relations.
Main Publications
War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society, Cambridge: Polity, April 2003, chapter 2 online at www.martinshaw.org/warandgenocide/2.htm
Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 286 pp (German and Italian translations forthcoming; Chapter 1, 'Globality' also published online at http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/012shaw.htm
Civil Society and Media in global Crises: Representing Distant Violence, London, Pinter, 1996, Part III online at www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/201shaw.htm
Dialectics of War: an Essay in the Social Theory of War and Peace, London: Pluto, 1988, full text online at www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/204shaw.htm
Current Writing
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, 2003
'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 www.martinshaw.org/03guerra.htm
2002 'Risk-transfer militarism, small massacres and the historic legitimacy of war', International Relations, 16, 3, 343-60, www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/205shaw.htm
'The Unfinished Global Revolution: Intellectuals and the New Politics of International Relations', Review of International Studies, 27, 1, 1-21, www.martinshaw.org/unfinished.pdf
'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, www.martinshaw.org/hsir.htm
'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'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, www.martinshaw.org/democracy.htm
'Global society' in the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, London: Routledge, pp 606-07
Review article, '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, www.martinshaw.org/crystal.htm
'Return of the good war?' www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/104shaw.htm
'A regressive crystallization of global state power: theorising a response to the '"war against terrorism"' www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/109shaw.htm
Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution,
Cambridge University Press, 286 pp. (German and Italian translations, with new introduction, forthcoming.)
'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 www.martinshaw.org/crisksocs.htm
'Historical sociology and global transformation', in Ronen Palan (ed.) New Theories of the Global Political Economy, London: Routledge, 229-41
'The State of International Relations', in Sarah Owen Vandersluis (ed.), The State and Identity Construction in International Relations, London: Macmillan, pp. 7-30 www.martinshaw.org/stateofIR.htm
'War and Society', in John W Chambers II, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Military History, New York: Oxford University Press