Postcolonial Theory and International Relations

✍ Scribed by Sanjay Seth (ed.)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Interventions
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism?

In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations is the first book to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of how postcolonialism radically alters our understanding of international relations.

Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar and looks at the core components of international relations – theories, the nation, geopolitics, international law, war, international political economy, sovereignty, religion, nationalism, Empire etc. – through a postcolonial lens. In so doing it provides students with a valuable insight into the challenges that postcolonialism poses to our understanding of global politics.

Sanjay Seth is Professor of Politics and co-Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively on social and political theory, postcolonialism, and modern Indian history. He is the author of Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India (Duke UP 2007) and a founding co-editor of the journal, Postcolonial Studies (1998-).

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction Sanjay Seth

Part I CRITIQUE
1. Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of International Relations Sanjay Seth

1. The Other Side of the Westphalian Frontier John M. Hobson

2. Slavery, Finance and International Political Economy: Postcolonial Reflections Branwen Gruffydd Jones

3. Time and the Others Christine Helliwell and Barry Hindess

Part II PERFORMANCE

1. War, Armed Forces and Society in Postcolonial Perspective Tarak Barkawi

[Tarak Barkawi is associate professor in the Department of Politics, New School for Social Research. He earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota and specializes in the study of war, armed forces and society, with a focus on conflict between the West and the global South. He has written on colonial armies, ‘small wars’ and imperial warfare, the Cold War in the Third World, and on counterinsurgency and the War on Terror. More generally, he is interested in the place of armed force in histories and theories of globalization, modernization and imperialism, especially from a postcolonial perspective.]

1. Deferring Difference: A Postcolonial Critique of the ‘Race Problem’ in Moral Thought Siba N. Grovogui

2. IR and the Postcolonial Novel: Nation and Subjectivity in India Sankaran Krishna

3. The ‘Bandung Impulse’ and International Relations Mustapha Kamal Pasha

4. The Spirit of Exchange Robbie Shilliam

Bibliography
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