Martin Shaw (born 30 June 1947 in Driffield, Yorkshire, England) is a British sociologist and academic.
[2] However, he developed a critique of Marxism, which he saw as incapable of fully analysing the problem of war, as he argued in Socialism and Militarism.
The following year Shaw moved to a chair of international relations and politics at the University of Sussex, where he became a research professor in 2008.
He joined Roehampton University in 2010 and the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals in 2011.
He criticised what he saw as the passivity of the political left in the face of the genocidal wars in Bosnia (1992–1995) and Kosovo (1998–1999).