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On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 5 April 2024, 1030 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

THe short-term contributions of the Special Issue have been worthwhile, but there remains a continued concern and challenge that with greater attention paid to race and imperialism in IR, these issues will become co-opted into the game of academic production, sanitised as intellectual curiosities, instead of being treated as matters of life and death that need to be opposed practically and not just on paper.

Landmarks and warning signs

by Inderjeet Parmar | 4 April 2024, 1000 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

The special issue’s concerns could easily be a passing ‘fad’ as the forces of the status quo bide their time. A focal point on race, necessary as it is, could elide class and material factors’ influence on world politics.

International Relations and the Problem of Literacy

by Lina Benabdallah | 4 April 2024, 0930 EDT | Academia, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

There is no shortage of knowledge produced in various traditions and diverse scholarly communities. There is no lack of theoretical traditions and political thought that come from non-Euro-American and mainstream canons. There is also no shortage in theoretical concepts and approaches to global politics that are not produced in Anglophone spaces. Rather, there is still in mainstream IR a major problem of literacy to access, integrate, and dialogue with this wealth of IR scholarship produced in and from the margins

Is Latin America “International” enough for IR?

by Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli | 4 April 2024, 0900 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, States & Regions, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

Even when Latin Americans are allowed to speak, IR scholars and practitioners do not listen to them due to the language in which they produce knowledge, epistemic violence and access barriers.

Why Land Acknowledgements?

by Stuart J. Kaufman | 9 April 2022, 0930 EDT | Academia, Race

The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.

No, Critical Race Theory was not a “thing” in the Soviet Union

by Lisa Gaufman | 5 November 2021, 1020 EDT | Race, States & Regions

According to a recent tweet, which I am not going to link to, "CRT" led to "multiple civil wars and transnational conflicts by the 1990s" in the Soviet Union. The simple answer is no, but let me explain in more detail. Some have dubbed the Soviet Union an "affirmative action empire" that glorified internationalism, anti-racism, anti-colonialism; at home, however, one could see a much less rosy picture. The notion of nationality, which is bound in Western Europe to the concept of citizenship, derives in Russia from a Soviet atavism that included ‘Natsional’nost’ (ethnicity) in the vital...

James Bond Made Redundant

by Brandon Valeriano | 19 October 2021, 1014 EDT | Nerdblogging, Race, Security

There is perhaps no greater film institution than the James Bond franchise. Over 27 movies and 59 years from Doctor No (1962) to Goldfinger (1964) to the modern era of Goldeneye (1995) and Skyfall (2012), Bond is a touchstone in many people lives, although not without controversy. Bond is a threat to women, minorities, and buildings yet also an in-demand entertainment property. That is all over now. James Bond has been made redundant The central question in the latest Bond movie, No Time to Die (2021), is how does James Bond fit into our modern world? In an era of technology and advanced...

Failing Upwards and Global Elitism

by Adam B. Lerner | 14 October 2021, 1202 EDT | Featured, Global Health, Race, US Foreign Policy

Matt Hancock, a Conservative MP and the UK’s Health Secretary during most of the Covid lockdowns, has failed upwards.

Decolonizing Corruption

by Adam B. Lerner | 5 October 2021, 0714 EDT | Human Rights, Political Economy, Race, Theory & Methods

Corruption is an issue largely off the radar screens of many IR scholars. How can they better theorize corruption’s pervasiveness in international politics, while avoiding the biases of past approaches?

Is NATO Good for Asia, or Is Asia Good for NATO?

by Van Jackson | 23 September 2021, 0446 EDT | Race, Security, States & Regions

Over the past six months or so, I've gotten a lot of pings about NATO and the "Big 3" (UK, France, and Germany) taking on a role in Asia — and specifically a bigger military presence in the region. The issue has come up a few times on my podcast. I got an early preview of a book about a closely related question by a European scholar. I've had EU parliamentary staffers reach out to me about this. And I gave an interview to a lefty newspaper in Norway that was trying to make sense of NATO's approach to China/Asia/Indo-Pacific. It keeps coming up. Then, of course, the big Australia-US-UK...

National identity and nuclear submarines in Australia

by Catriona Standfield | 19 September 2021, 1421 EDT | Race, Security

Australia’s attempt to balance against China using nuclear submarines is not just a material decision. It’s one shaped by over a century of deep fear about Australia’s role as an outpost of whiteness in Asia.

When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent

by Van Jackson | 12 September 2021, 0101 EDT | Race, Various and Sundry

I was an enlisted Airman studying Korean at the Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California on September 11, 2001. When the first two planes struck, none of us had any idea whether it was a high-profile accident or an attack. It was only when a third plane flew into the Pentagon that we put 2 and 2 together. I remember feeling confused, and a bit queasy after going out to the "Day Room" to check out the news, but I had a milestone language test that morning and was trying to focus. After the test, I went outside to a smoke pit to wait for the others in my cohort to finish. I...

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