South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations

This book provides an alternative history of the 'birth' of International Relations.

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Frontiers of IR

2. The 'South African Model'

3. Reimagining Empire

4. Writing the State

5. Institutionalising the International

6. Conclusion: Into the International

About the author

Vineet Thakur is Lecturer of History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity and Institutions in India and South Africa (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Jan Smuts and the Indian Question (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Vineet Thakur, Peter Vale, Vale Peter
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2020
• EAN: 9781786614636
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-463-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 228 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: 1 BW Photos
• Series: Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, International Relations, Republic of South Africa, Political science & theory, Political science and theory