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South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations (Hardcover)
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South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations (Hardcover)
Series: Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
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This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of
the discipline of International Relations. Conventional, western
histories of the discipline point to 1919 as the year of the 'birth
of the discipline' with two seminal initiatives - setting up of the
first Chair of IR at Aberystwyth and the founding of the Institute
of International Relations on the side-lines of the Paris Peace
Conference. From these events, International Relations is argued to
have been established as a path to create peace in the post-War era
and facilitated through a scientific study of international
affairs. International Relations was therefore, both a field of
study and knowledge production and a plan of action. This
pathbreaking book challenges these claims by presenting an
alternative narrative of International Relations. In this book, we
make three interconnected arguments. First, we argue that the natal
moment in the founding of IR is not World War I - as is generally
believed - but the Second Anglo Boer War. Second, we argue that the
ideas, methods and institutions that led to the making of IR were
first thrashed out in South Africa - in Johannesburg, in fact.
Finally, this South African genealogy of IR, we show in the book,
allows us to properly investigate the emergence of academic IR at
the interstices of race, Empire and science.
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