1st Edition
Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality Writing Civilisational Difference in Early Modern International Relations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Revealing ‘civilised sovereignty’: The myth of sovereignty as equality and the maintenance of Eurocentrism in IR
Chapter 2: Sovereignty as a performative concept
Chapter 3: The writing of the ideal sovereign state: French theorists and civilised sovereignty
Chapter 4: Sovereign doubts: Civilisation and savagery disrupt the colonial frontiers
Chapter 5: (Re-)establishing the sovereign, creating a familiar – but inferior – Other
Chapter 6: Naturalising the sovereign/colonial frontiers: The interplay between internal and external civilised identities
Conclusion
Biography
Xavier Mathieu is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on Sovereignty, International Interventions (the Responsibility to Protect, Peacebuilding), Civilisation and Eurocentrism, and Identity/Difference in International Encounters. He has published articles on these topics in International Relations, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of International Political Theory, the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and Global Responsibility to Protect. He has also co-edited (with Pol Bargues-Pédreny) The Politics of Peacebuilding in a Diverse World (Routledge, 2019).
