02685cam a2200349 i 4500 on1119641146 OCoLC ta 210225s2020 enka b 001 0 eng 2019048419 9781786614636 (hbk.) 1786614634 (hbk.) 9781786614643 (pbk.) 1786614642 (hbk.) (OCoLC)1119641146 DT1103 .T53 2020 Thakur, Vineet. South Africa, race and the making of international relations / Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale. London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, c2020. xi, 185 p. : ill. Kilombo: international relations and colonial questions Includes bibliographical references and index. The Frontiers of IR -- The 'South African Model' -- Reimagining Empire -- Writing the State -- Institutionalising the International -- Into the International. "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". South African Institute of International Affairs History. International relations History 20th century. South Africa Foreign relations History. South Africa Politics and government. Vale, Peter C. J. Kilombo (Series) lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 DT1103 .T53 2020 PNLIB21060097 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 283 283