OpenDemocracy contributor on war, genocide and global politics, and more recently on racism, Brexit and British politics. Sociologist and International Relations scholar and author of numerous books, currently a Research Professor at IBEI, Barcelona, and Roehampton University, and Emeritus Professor at Sussex. Also an Independent Councillor on Devon County Councillor, campaigning for the local NHS, and an active supporter of Devon for Europe.
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Published in: HomeLibya: popular revolt, military interventionThe changing dynamics of the Libyan conflict highlight the contradictions of "humanitarian intervention" when...
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Published in: HomeThe global democratic revolution: a new stage
The popular risings in the Arab world belong to a wider historical process of worldwide democratic advance. But the...
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Published in: HomeStreet politics, violence, and media
The student movement in Britain against the government’s tuition-fees and spending policies faces inescapable...
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Published in: HomeIraq, war and WikiLeaks: the real story
The tranche of American military documents released by the WikiLeaks project contains a wealth of detail about the...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo
A revisionist reading of the Rwanda genocide of 1994 endorsed by Noam Chomsky confirms the moral blindness of the...
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Published in: HomeThe Holocaust, genocide studies, and politics
A compelling argument among scholars of genocide reflects the gradual development of the field beyond its point of...