Racism, Diplomacy, and International Relations

Unoki addresses the significance of racism in international relations by focusing on its conception as a doctrine and its interrelationship with imperialism, its doctrinal role in the development of the discipline of International Relations (IR), and various episodes from Western and Asian history in which racism had affected state behavior and the practice of diplomacy.

The creation of empires that oppressed indigenous peoples, the two World Wars and the campaigns of ethnic “cleansing” and ...