In his Marxist period in the 1970s, Shaw published Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading[REF] and Marxism and Social Science: The Roots of Social Science [REF].
In the 2000s, Shaw's research returned to questions of war, now extended into the field of genocide, with three books: War and Genocide,[REF] The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq[REF] and What is Genocide?