Martin Shaw gained his PhD in the Sociology of International Relations and War from the University of Hull. He is research professor at IBEI since 2012. He was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Durham (1970-72), and then Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull (1972-95). From 1995-2012 he held the Chair of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor. He has been a Professorial Fellow in International Relations and Human Rights at Roehampton University, London, since 2010, and has been a Visiting Professor at IBEI in 2010 and 2011. Martin Shaw's work has focused on the sociology of global politics, war and genocide. His books include Marxism and Social Science: The Roots of Social Knowledge, London: Pluto, 1975; Dialectics of War: An Essay on the Social Theory of War and Peace, London: Pluto, 1988; Post-Military Society: Militarism, Demilitarization and War at the End of the Twentieth Century, Cambridge: Polity, 1991; Global Society and International Relations: Sociological Concepts and Political Perspectives, Cambridge: Polity, 1994; Civil Society and Media in Global Crises: Representing Distant Violence, London: Pinter, 1996; Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2000, War and Genocide: Organized Killing in Modern Society, Cambridge: Polity, 2003, The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq, Cambridge: Polity, 2005, What is Genocide? Cambridge: Polity, 2007, and Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns of Destructive Violence in the Transitions of the Late Modern World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. His personal website is www.martinshaw.org and he is a regular contributor to www.opendemocracy.net.