1st Edition

Violence and the Third World in International Relations

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Violence and ordering of the Third World: an introduction

Randolph B. Persaud and Narendran Kumarakulasingam

2. Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary

Alexander D. Barder

3. Evangelical violence: Western Christianity and the use of force against the Third World

Christopher Rhodes

4. The horror of ‘horrorism’: laundering metropolitan killings

Narendran Kumarakulasingam

5. Killing the Third World: civilisational security as US grand strategy

Randolph B. Persaud

6. Manhunt Presidency: Obama, race, and the Third World

Sankaran Krishna

7. A ‘synchronised attack’ on life: the Saudi-led coalition’s ‘hidden and holistic’ genocide in Yemen and the shared responsibility of the US and UK

Jeffrey S. Bachman

8. Violence on Iraqi bodies: decolonising economic sanctions in security studies

Mariam Georgis and Riva Gewarges

9. Colonial legacies, armed revolts and state violence: the Maoist movement in India

Swati Parashar

10. Corporate power, US drug enforcement and the repression of indigenous peoples in Latin America

Horace Bartilow

11. The violence work of transnational gangs in Central America

María José Méndez

12. The coloniality of abridgment: afterlives of mass violence in Cambodia and the US

Emily Mitamura

13. The nexus between vulnerabilities and violence in the Caribbean

W. Andy Knight

Biography

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.