ABSTRACT
In this intervention, we critically assess the ‘idealism’ of interwar British thinkers and argue that ‘race’ was central to their imaginings of world state. Indeed, race and imperialism, while conjoined, were iterated in a specific form of Anglo-Saxon supremacy. We take the history of the discipline back to post-Second Anglo Boer War in South Africa, where we argue some of the ideas, methods and institutions that shaped IR were first concretised.
