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Global Race War - International Politics and Racial Hierarchy (Hardcover)
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Global Race War - International Politics and Racial Hierarchy (Hardcover)
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International Relations theory assumes that the struggle for power
is not only ahistorical but that international politics is
necessarily the realm of a perpetual struggle for power between
states. However, by looking beyond the state, the study of global
politics may itself reveal the importance of alternative
imaginaries just as historically salient as that of the state
system. In particular, this book argues that a specific racial
imaginary has, over the past two centuries, cut across politically
defined state boundaries to legitimate practices of genocidal
violence against so-called "enemy races." In Global Race War,
Alexander D. Barder shows how the very idea of global order was
based on racial hierarchy and difference. Barder traces the
emergence of this global racial hierarchy from the early 19th
century to the present to explain how a historical racial global
order unraveled over the first half of the 20th century, continued
during the Cold War, and reemerged during the Global War on Terror.
As Barder shows, imperial, racial, and geopolitical orders
intersected over time in ways that violently tore apart the
imperial and sovereign state system and continue to haunt politics
today. Examining global politics in terms of race and racial
violence reveals a different spatial topology across domestic and
global politics. Moreover, global histories of racial hierarchy and
violence have important implications for understanding the
continued salience of race within Western polities. Global Race War
revisits two centuries of international history to show the
important consequences of a global racial imaginary that continues
to reverberate across time and space.
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