POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A critical introduction Edited by Sanjay Seth Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 INTERVENTIONS Postcolonial Theory and International Relations What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can interna- tional relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged conven- tional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction is the fi rst book to undertake a comprehensive and accessible examination of how postcolonialism radically alters our understanding of international relations. It offers a postcolonial critique of the discipline of IR, as well as essays that provide alternative, postcolonial readings of key aspects of international politics. Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar and the topics covered include the nation and nationalism, the historical origins of the modern international system, war, political economy, race in international thought, and Empire. In so doing it provides scholars and students with a valuable insight into the challenges that postcolonialism poses to our understanding of global politics. Sanjay Seth is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively on postcolonialism, social and political theory, and modern Indian history and is a founding co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies (1998–present). Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Interventions Edited by: Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick ‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, “knowledge is not made for under- standing; it is made for cutting.” In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge main- stream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affi rm the world recycled in IR’s traditional geopolitical imaginary’. Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of impor- tant topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, poli- tics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics. Critical Theorists and The Time of the City International Relations Politics, philosophy, and genre Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick Michael J. Shapiro Vaughan-Williams Governing Sustainable Ethics as Foreign Policy Development Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Britain, the EU and the other Partnership, protest and power at the Dan Bulley world summit Carl Death Universality, Ethics and International Relations Insuring Security A grammatical reading Biopolitics, security and risk Véronique Pin-Fat Luis Lobo-Guerrero Foucault and International Politics and the Art of Relations Commemoration New critical engagements Memorials to struggle in Latin Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and America and Spain Doug Stokes Katherine Hite International Relations and Indian Foreign Policy Non-Western Thought The politics of postcolonial identity Imperialism, colonialism and Priya Chacko investigations of global modernity Edited by Robbie Shilliam Politics of the Event Time, movement, becoming Autobiographical International Tom Lundborg Relations I, IR Theorising Post-Confl ict Edited by Naeem Inayatullah Reconciliation Agonism, restitution and repair War and Rape Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch Law, memory and justice Nicola Henry Europe’s Encounter with Islam The secular and the postsecular Madness in International Relations Luca Mavelli Psychology, security and the global governance of mental health Re-Thinking International Alison Howell Relations Theory via Deconstruction Spatiality, Sovereignty and Badredine Arfi Carl Schmitt Geographies of the nomos The New Violent Cartography Edited by Stephen Legg Geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and Politics of Urbanism Michael J. Shapiro Seeing like a city Warren Magnusson Insuring War Sovereignty, security and risk Beyond Biopolitics Luis Lobo-Guerrero Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Theory, violence and horror in world politics International Relations, Meaning François Debrix and Alexander and Mimesis D. Barder Necati Polat The Politics of Speed The Postcolonial Subject Capitalism, the state and war in Claiming politics/governing others in an accelerating world late modernity Simon Glezos Vivienne Jabri Foucault and the Politics of Democratic Futures Hearing Revisioning democracy promotion Lauri Siisiäinen Milja Kurki Volunteer Tourism in the Postcolonial Theory Global South A critical introduction Giving back in neoliberal times Edited by Sanjay Seth Wanda Vrasti More than Just War Cosmopolitan Government in Narratives of the just war and Europe military life Citizens and entrepreneurs in Charles A. Jones postnational politics Owen Parker Deleuze & Fascism Security: war: aesthetics Edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid Studies in the Trans-Disciplinary Method Feminist International Relations After the aesthetic turn ‘Exquisite Corpse’ Michael J. Shapiro Marysia Zalewski Alternative Accountabilities in The Persistence of Nationalism Global Politics From imagined communities to urban The scars of violence encounters Brent J. Steele Angharad Closs Stephens Celebrity Humanitarianism Interpretive Approaches to Global The ideology of global charity Climate Governance Ilan Kapoor Reconstructing the greenhouse Edited by Chris Methmann, Deconstructing International Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan Politics Michael Dillon Postcolonial Encounters with International Relations The Politics of Exile The politics of transgression Elizabeth Dauphinee Alina Sajed Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Postcolonial Theory and International Relations A critical introduction Edited by Sanjay Seth Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 First published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2013 Sanjay Seth for selection and editorial matter, contributors their contributions. The right of Sanjay Seth to be identifi ed as editor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or regis- tered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Postcolonial theory and international relations : a critical introduction / edited by Sanjay Seth. p. cm. — (Interventions) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. International relations—Philosophy. 2. Postcolonialism. I. Seth, Sanjay, 1961– JZ1305.P68 2012 327.101—dc23 2012027482 ISBN: 978-0-415-58287-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-58288-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-07302-5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Cenveo Publisher Services Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Contents Notes on contributors i x Introduction 1 SANJAY SETH PART I Critique 13 1 Postcolonial theory and the critique of International Relations 15 SANJAY SETH 2 The other side of the Westphalian frontier 32 JOHN M. HOBSON 3 Slavery, fi nance and international political economy: postcolonial refl ections 49 BRANWEN GRUFFYDD JONES 4 Time and the others 70 CHRISTINE HELLIWELL AND BARRY HINDESS PART II Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Performance 85 5 War, armed forces and society in postcolonial perspective 87 TARAK BARKAWI 6 Deferring difference: a postcolonial critique of the ‘race problem’ in moral thought 106 SIBA N’ZATIOULA GROVOGUI viii Contents 7 IR and the postcolonial novel: nation and subjectivity in India 124 SANKARAN KRISHNA 8 The ‘Bandung impulse’ and international relations 144 MUSTAPHA KAMAL PASHA 9 The spirit of exchange 166 ROBBIE SHILLIAM Bibliography 183 Index 200 Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 21:29 09 May 2016 Contributors Tarak Barkawi is associate professor in the Department of Politics, New School for Social Research. He earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota and specializes in the study of war, armed forces and society, with a focus on confl ict between the West and the global South. He has written on colonial armies, ‘small wars’ and imperial warfare, the Cold War in the Third World, and on counterinsurgency and the War on Terror. More generally, he is inter- ested in the place of armed force in