Research Seminar | The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza (Book Launch)

The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and lawyers who invoke it and governments and media that deny it. This book, by the foremost sociological theorist of genocide, defends the idea against thinkers who have questioned it, and argues that it is essential to the understanding of mass atrocities. It maintains that Gaza has opened a new age in which the West not only fails to prevent, but also participates in genocide. The New Age of Genocide brings the debate up to date and is essential reading.

Martin Shaw is Senior Research Professor at IBEI and Emeritus Professor of Sussex University, UK. He is the author of War and Genocide, What is Genocide, Genocide in International Relations and has recently published “The Genocide that Changed the World”, which is openly available online from the Journal of Genocide Research.