Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”

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Notes

1 For the call, see https://securitystudiesjournal.org/past-special-calls/race-and-security.

2 Robert Vitalis, White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015). See also Jessica Blatt, Race and the Making of American Political Science (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

3 See, among others, Jasmine K. Gani and Jenna Marshall, eds., “Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice,” International Affairs 98, no. 1 (2022); “Forum on Race and Racism in Critical Security Studies,” Security Dialogue 52, no. 1 (supplement) (2021). The 75th anniversary issue of International Organization notably included an article on the theme as well: Zoltán I. Búzás, “Racism and Antiracism in the Liberal International Order,” International Organization 75, Special Issue 2 (2021): 440-463. An essay on this theme finally recently appeared as well in the Annual Review of Political Science: see Bianca Freeman, D. G. Kim, and David A. Lake, “Race in International Relations: Beyond the ‘Norm Against Noticing,’” Annual Review of Political Science 25 (2022): 175-196.

4 I cannot do citational justice to this large body of work. Some of it is cited elsewhere in this special issue. For an important programmatic statement, see, however, Tarak Barkawi, "Decolonising War," European Journal of International Security 1, no. 2 (2016): 199-214. See also Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).

5 I have in mind, notably, Zoltán I. Búzás, “The Color of Threat: Race, Threat Perception, and the Demise of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902–1923),” Security Studies 22, no. 4 (2013): 573-606; and Steven Ward, “Race, Status, and Japanese Revisionism in the Early 1930s,” Security Studies 22, no. 4  (2013): 607-639. My apologies to any Security Studies authors I’ve overlooked.