Martin Shaw

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, and has written for openDemocracy over the last two decades. The author of many books on global politics, war and genocide, his Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath will be published by Agenda in March 2022.

BREXIT: the R is for Racism

B in Brexit stands for Boris and his overweening ambition. But R is for Racism, the method through which Vote Leave aims to achieve the political upset of the century.

By Martin Shaw

/ 10 Jun 2016

What will happen after the referendum?

A quick examination of the Tory project whatever the results shows worrying prospects.

By Martin Shaw

/ 7 Jun 2016

The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. Thompson

There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

By Martin Shaw

/ 25 Mar 2016

The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. Thompson

There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

By Martin Shaw

/ 25 Mar 2016

Three realities of the Isis conflict

The west must prioritise civilian wellbeing in any intervention. What might help?

By Martin Shaw

/ 2 Dec 2015

Three realities of the Isis conflict

The west must prioritise civilian wellbeing in any intervention. What might help?

By Martin Shaw

/ 2 Dec 2015

Labour and the comfort zone

If Corbyn wins, he will have to be willing to accept some radical changes to the way that politics works.

By Martin Shaw

/ 20 Aug 2015

How the SNP-Tory dynamics shifted the 2015 election

Fear of the SNP drove voters to the Tories - a fear that Labour's leadership candidates are failing to discuss.

By Martin Shaw

/ 5 Jun 2015

Development resistance threatens election upset in Devon

In one seat in the South West, the bookies list the main challenger is an independent. What's going on?

By Martin Shaw

/ 23 Feb 2015

Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too

The latest Israeli assault on Gaza is for one scholar an occasion to rethink the fundamental arguments for and against a boycott of the country.

By Martin Shaw

/ 31 Jul 2014

Russia-Israel: domestic politics and serious blowback

The Ukraine and Gaza crises alike demonstrate the risks of aggressive policy based on short-term calculations. Vladimir Putin and Binyamin Netanyahu's war-as-politics invites damaging long-term consequences.

By Martin Shaw

/ 21 Jul 2014

Sochi = Syria: boycott the Olympics

The crimes of Bashar al-Assad's regime and its support by Vladimir Putin demand an answer, says Martin Shaw.

By Martin Shaw

/ 22 Jan 2014