<p>In his compelling new book, Martin Shaw argues that the destruction of Gaza and Ukraine in different ways indicate that genocide is 'returning to the centre of a brutal new constellation of world politics'. A pioneering scholar of war and genocide, he shows how and why the pursuit of permanent security drives the mass destruction of civilian populations and their cultures.</p>

- A. Dirk Moses, author of The Problems of Genocide,

<p>Martin Shaw was one of the first to recognise genocide in Gaza. His book relates it to the larger structures of genocide in Palestine and the wider world. With this work, Shaw charts new pathways for understanding genocide through both sociological and legal lenses – an endeavor urgent now more than ever. By deepening and contextualizing our collective grasp of what genocide is, Shaw invites us to confront its meaning in our own time. The Israeli genocide in Gaza, like every atrocity of its kind, leaves wounds no one may be able to fully heal: every life lost is a loss for humanity itself. Yet it is precisely in the face of such devastations – atrocities we have failed to prevent and stop – that scholars must probe the broader significance of these crimes, equipping us with insight and, perhaps, with tools to face the future, as Shaw does.</p>

- Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,

<p>This is a sharply written and most welcome new contribution on the multiple new genocides of the 21st century... Shaw makes highly perceptive observations... with a thoughtful defense of the genocide concept, against those misguided scholars who seek to discard it. Instead he advocates reclaiming it and using it in new ways.</p>

- Journal of Peace Research,