The Imperial Discipline by Alexander E Davis, Vineet Thakur, ... - 9780745340623

The Imperial DisciplineRace and the Founding of International Relations\nAuthor(s): Alexander E Davis, Vineet Thakur, Peter Vale\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pluto Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pluto Press\nISBN-13: 9780745340623, 978-0745340623\nSynopsis\nThis book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition that of the Round Table.\n\nThe Round Table were a network of imperialists emerging in the late 1800s across five key British imperial societies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Their aim was to improve imperial governance, placing the empire into a position to control world affairs. Although they ultimately failed to rearrange world order according to their vision, they did help to build what we now call the discipline of IR.\n\nT.