Violence and the Third World
in International Relations
Violence and the Third World in International Relations is intended as a contribution to the decolonization of international relations, and especially of international security studies, much of which is dominated by a self-sustaining Eurocentrism.
Rather than focusing on the motivations of violence, this volume is concerned with the devastating and debilitating consequences of war against the Third World. Contributors delve into the violent structuring of Third World societies during colonialism, the Cold War, and globalization. A wide range of topics are systematically examined, including, but not restricted to, the role of racism in the construction of the international system; evangelical universalism and colonial conquest in Africa; American civilizational security as Grand Strategy in Asia; the colonial roots of guerrilla war in India; the widespread suffering and death inflicted on Iraqis through sanctions; violence against indigenous peoples in Colombia related to war capitalism; the complicated legacies of genocide in Cambodia; the Saudi-led, (US and UK backed) war against Yemen; the relationalities between violence in the US and the Third World during Obamas presidency; the structural location of gang violence in Central America in the aftermath of foreign intervention; and a broader understanding of security and insecurity in the Caribbean.
Violence and the Third World in International Relations will be of particular interest to scholars of postcolonial and decolonial international relations, international security studies, and race and international relations.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Randolph B. Persaud is Associate Professor at the School of International Service at the American University, Washington D.C., USA. He has published extensively on race and IR, hegemony and counterhegemony, and the politics of immigration.
Narendran Kumarakulasingam teaches in the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and is a Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada.
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