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Lessons of the 1980s for the new European security agenda

Lessons from the Anti-nuclear Movement of the 1980s

New – 30 per cent off on my books (and others from Agenda)

Agenda Publishing is celebrating its 200th book with a new 30 per cent offer on all books ordered by 14th April. You can go to my books, including the forthcoming The New Age of Genocide, – and from there to the rest of the catalogue. Apply the code EMAIL30 at the checkout.

Gaza/Ukraine, Starmer/Trump: new article

In Byline Times: Israel’s Genocide in Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to Trump and Putin

Book announcement: The New Age of Genocide

I’ve completed a new book, The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza, which addresses the centrality of genocide to the present era of world politics. Due in the early autumn and available to order now.

1. Introduction: The Return of Genocide

PART 1. Twenty-First Century Genocide

2. Genocide in History and in our Time

3. Dynamics of War and Genocide in Ukraine

PART 2. Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine

4. The Gaza War-Genocide

5. The Structure of Genocide in Palestine

PART 3. 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

The Axis of Genocide – my latest

open.substack.com/pub/martinshawx/p/the-axis-of-genocide

‘Blind Rearmament Won’t Counter the Threats from Putin and Trump’ – my new piece for Byline Times

‘Blind Rearmanent Won’t Counter the Threats from Putin and Trump’ – Byline Times
— Read on bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/blind-rearmanent-wont-counter-the-threats-from-putin-and-trump/

📖 24 February, Barcelona: Nuclear Weapons and Europe

24 February, 12h · Nuclear Weapons and Europe: lessons from the movement for European Nuclear Disarmament, with Mary Kaldor. At IBEI.
— Read on mailchi.mp/ibei/ibei-research-seminar-book-launch-estimative-intelligence-in-european-foreign-policymaking-5122464

Ever Again: the dead end of official Holocaust memory

NEW SUBSTACK POST: READ HERE

Recording of LSE book launch now available

LISTEN HERE.

Thanks to the LSE Library for making this recording – and for arranging a really good event.

With Mary Kaldor and Luke Cooper at yesterday’s LSE launch for my antinuclear history