The Noble American Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development

Vitalis, Robert

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“…Barkawi (2010), Schmidt (1998: ch. 4) and Vitalis (2000, 2010) address the pivotal role of empire and race in disciplinary history.…”

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Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war

Bell

2013

European Journal of International Relations

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During the final quarter of the 20th century, the democratic peace thesis -the idea that democracies do not fight each other -moved to the centre of scholarly debate throughout the Western world. Much of this work traces its origins to the European Enlightenment, focusing especially on Immanuel Kant. Yet this narrative ignores earlier 20th-century debates about the possibilities of global peace, and the role of democracy within them. In this article, I analyse some prominent, but now largely forgotten, strands of political thinking in the United States and Britain during the first half of the 20th century. They form an important part of the genealogy of the democratic peace thesis. I start by delineating four types of argument about peace that were popular in the 19th century: liberal-systemic, radical-liberal, socialist and republican. I then introduce two other modes of argument that circulated at the turn of the 20th century: the 'democratic war thesis' (the idea that democracies are war-prone) and the 'empire peace thesis' (the argument that only imperial states are capable of assuring perpetual peace). I follow this with a discussion of racial utopianism -the claim that the unification of the Anglo-Saxons could eliminate war, securing peace and justice on earth. This white supremacist vision was a call for the racial pacification of the globe.

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Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war

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2013

European Journal of International Relations

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“…More recently, critical scholars have attempted to redress the absence of race and racial theorizing in the discipline. Robert Vitalis' recent work has done much to recover the race-infused beginnings of IR as a discipline (Vitalis 2010;. A recent edited volume on reconceptualizing IR theory around race frames issues around W. E. B. du Bois' 1903 statement that "the problem of the 20 th century is the problem of the color line".…”

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Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century

Delatolla

Yao

2018

International Studies Review

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In recent decades, international events and incisive critical voices have catapulted the concepts of race and religion to the foreground of International Relations research. In particular, scholars have sought to recover the racialized and imperial beginnings of IR as an academic discipline in the early-20th century. This article contributes to this growing body of work by analyzing both race and religion as conceptual tools of scientific imperial administration—tools that in the 19th century classified and divided the global periphery along a continuum of civilizational and developmental difference. The article then applies this framework to the case of French, and more broadly, European, relations with populations in the Ottoman Empire, particularly within the Syrian Provinces. As described throughout this article and the case study, the Europeans used the language of race to contribute to religious hierarchies in the Syrian provinces in the mid- and late-19th century, having a lasting effect on discussions of religion in IR and international politics.

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“…Yet, these countries are usually categorized as 'Anglo-World', part of a 'core' organized around a certain language (Anglo). Meanwhile, their political, colonial and race histories have been erased-as has been the case in the history of IR, more generally (Vitalis 2000(Vitalis , 2010Krishna 2001;Long and Schmidt 2005;Jones 2006). Therefore, few scholars study the 'indigenous' and pre/post-colonial IR thought in Canada or Australia.…”

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Conclusions: Wor(l)ds Beyond the West

Kristensen

2016

Globalizing International Relations

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The Noble American Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development

Cited by 53 publications

References 19 publications

Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war

Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war

Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century

Conclusions: Wor(l)ds Beyond the West

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