Race, Merit, and the Moral Economy of International Relations

Q4 Social Sciences
S. Krishna
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International Relations (IR) as a discipline explains the fact of global inequality through a discourse of meritocracy. In the early decades of the discipline, such explanations were explicitly racial, and justified empire and Western dominance on the basis of their innate superiority over the rest of the world. In later and in contemporary times, such racialized explanations for inequality have been replaced by ostensibly merit-based explanations that turn out, on closer examination, to replicate the inner logic and exclusionary claims of earlier ones. The notion of meritocracy has been a key element in the ideological appeal of IR as a discourse to elites and aspiring middle classes central to nation-building efforts in the global South. This latter fact complicates efforts that equate decolonizing the discipline with the promotion of diversity in its membership and the widening of its empirical and theoretical concerns. Central to any notion of a genuinely decolonial IR must be an attack on the very idea of merit as explaining and justifying international and domestic inequality.
种族、功绩与国际关系中的道德经济
国际关系(IR)作为一门学科,通过精英主义的话语来解释全球不平等的事实。在这门学科的最初几十年里,这种解释明显带有种族主义色彩,并以帝国和西方对世界其他地区的先天优越感为基础,为帝国和西方的统治辩护。在后来和当代,这种对不平等的种族化解释已经被表面上基于能力的解释所取代,而仔细研究后发现,这些解释复制了早期解释的内在逻辑和排他性主张。精英统治的概念一直是国际关系意识形态吸引力的一个关键因素,作为对精英和有抱负的中产阶级的话语,是全球南方国家建设努力的核心。后一事实使将该学科非殖民化与促进其成员多样性和扩大其经验和理论关注等同起来的努力复杂化。任何关于真正非殖民化国际关系的概念,其核心都必须是对用功绩来解释和证明国际和国内不平等的观点的攻击。
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Millennium DIPr
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