ABSTRACT
This chapter examines multiple theories in the fields of political science, cultural and postcolonial studies in relation to the comparative strategies of governance. It also examines dominant theories in political science that promulgate the enduring notion that Britain and France are heirs to contrasting national cultures rooted in distinct political ideologies. The chapter provides French Republican citizenship and British multiculturalism in order to visualize the concept of racial rule in practice. It proposes some of the politics, ideologies and ideologues of these organizations, with particular emphasis on how the 'problem' of minorities was articulated, represented and neglected in words and in practice. Minorities were seen as sources of destabilization from liberal, socialist and fascist quarters: At Liberation, expulsions – not only of Germans, but also of Ukrainians, Poles, and others in Eastern Europe – were widely seen as the lesser evil and were condoned by the Allies and Stalin. Under Nazi rule, race became the organizing principle for the continent.
