Randolph B Persaud
Biographic Data
| ID | 809094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randolph B Persaud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randolph B |
| FAMILY NAME | Persaud |
| SIGNATURE | PERSAUD R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney
This article examines the thinking and political practices of two of the Caribbean’s most noted political figures. Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney led epic struggles against authoritarianism in their native Guyana and contributed to the global fight for decolonization and national independence. The article also compares and contrasts the work of Jagan and Rodney
Towards a holistic understanding of Afghanistan
Ideology, socialization and hegemony in Disciplinary International Relations
This article argues that Disciplinary International Relations (DIR) does not only explain international affairs, but it also socializes and hegemonizes publics and professionals into an ideological worldview consistent with the interest of states that underwrite the world economic and security order based on hegemonic liberalism. Considerable emphasis is placed on tracing the continuities between the early theorization of IR in the United Kingdom…
Hegemony and the postcolonial state
Globalization as knowledge production and circulation
J oseph D arda . Empire of Defense
From the emergence of the national security state under President Truman through the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf Wars, Cold War, the war on terror, and the dronewar of Obama, Joseph Darda’s Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War demonstrates how war and combat have been transformed from the violent formation and maintenance of empire to the more benign and comfortable concept of defense—defense of the homeland, defen…
Violence and the Third World in International Relations
A Neo-Gramscian/Postcolonial Engagement with Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire
Violence and ordering of the Third World
The decisive role violence has played in the ordering of the Third World cannot be ignored or consigned to the past. Accordingly, we argue for a more systematic and determined attention to the connections between the devastation unleashed by colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of large-scale violence in the post-independence periods. In contradistinction to situating violence in and against the Third World as a backdrop of incomplete modern…
Killing the Third World
This article disputes explanations of American expansionism that are based on the requirements of national security or more abstract theories such as the balance of power. In contradistinction to the imperatives of defence and survival, the article shows how civilisational factors weighed heavily on the emergence of US grand strategy at the turn of the nineteenth century. In particular assumptions about the peoples of the Third World being lesser…
Race, Gender and Culture in International Relations
Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence
This article argues that the neo-Gramscian theory of hegemony is not as useful in explaining the rise and consolidation of the modern world system. In particular, while the force-consensus approach may indeed be relevant in examining relations among the Western countries, it is fundamentally wanting when applied to the third world. The two main reasons concern the persistent violence against the third world, and the dominance of race and racism a…
From sexation to sexualization
This article introduces two new concepts—dispersed submission (DS) and sexation—in an interrogation of the general structures and nuanced practices of the global sex industry. There is considerable stress on the ways in which practices of domination during colonialism set up a form of racio-gendered ‘path dependence’ now imbricated in the current neoliberal global political economy. The arguments emerge from both material practices and careful co…
Through, against, and beyond the racial state
This chapter argues that one of the ways in which race has been simultaneously repressed and its effects sustained in the international order is through the deployment of anticommunism in the Cold War. Anticommunism has a particular role to play in racial states. Three such states in the twentieth century manifested a particular concern with anticommunism: the United States, Australia and South Africa. In these states, anticommunism was peculiarl…
Race and Racism in International Relations
A Newer, Truer, and More Moral Realism
William H. Thornton's Fire on the Rim: The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power Politics is a sustained, eloquent, and combative critique of realism, neorealism, reactionary modernization, and neoliberal globalization. It is also a bold effort to construct a framework of moral realism through the systematic incorporation of culture into international relations theory. Thornton's new moral geopolitics represents a cultural realism of the Left (p. …
Apertura
R. B. J. Walker (*) Colonialism without a civilizational mission is no colonialism at all. Ashis Nandy Race is a complex and multiply contested concept, pulled this way and that by opposing demands of culture and biology, knowledge and power. It animates antagonisms in academy, in homes, and on streets. Few conversations about race manage to avoid either engaged anger of conversationalists or sense that conversation has to move in many directions…
Racial Assumptions in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply
Randolph B. Persaud (*) Capitalism has generally found laborers when and where it needed them, and migratory movements have carried labor power to market all across the globe. --Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History These days, hate crimes occur with alarming frequency. In between these violent outbursts, I receive ominous missives launched with vitriol and resentments against the usual targeted groups, but especially the reviled alien…
Subsidiarity, Regional Governance, and Caribbean Security
The reconfiguration of the global security order since the late 1980s has had a heavy impact on regional security in the Caribbean. Having lost strategic importance, the Caribbean states have been attempting to restructure their relationship with the United States. These small states are interested in building a regional security regime that is inclusive, transparent, and accountable. This analysis shows how the principle of subsidiarity may be e…
Frantz Fanon, race and world order
This chapter examines the relevance of Frantz Fanon for the study of global politics. While Fanon did not offer a ‘theory’ of international – or as I would prefer, global – relations, I intend to demonstrate that he did point to some of the constitutive antagonisms of global power relations. Of course, whether Fanon may or may not be considered relevant depends on one of the broader concerns of this book, namely, what is the meaning and purpose o…
Innovation and Transformation in International Studies
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new research problems, this collection of critically minded, original essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted directions. Bridging social theory and international relations theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributor…
Apertura
R. B. J. Walker (*) Colonialism without a civilizational mission is no colonialism at all. Ashis Nandy Race is a complex and multiply contested concept, pulled this way and that by opposing demands of culture and biology, knowledge and power. It animates antagonisms in academy, in homes, and on streets. Few conversations about race manage to avoid either engaged anger of conversationalists or sense that conversation has to move in many directions…
Racial Assumptions in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply
Randolph B. Persaud (*) Capitalism has generally found laborers when and where it needed them, and migratory movements have carried labor power to market all across the globe. --Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History These days, hate crimes occur with alarming frequency. In between these violent outbursts, I receive ominous missives launched with vitriol and resentments against the usual targeted groups, but especially the reviled alien…
Violence and ordering of the Third World
The decisive role violence has played in the ordering of the Third World cannot be ignored or consigned to the past. Accordingly, we argue for a more systematic and determined attention to the connections between the devastation unleashed by colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of large-scale violence in the post-independence periods. In contradistinction to situating violence in and against the Third World as a backdrop of incomplete modern…
Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence
This article argues that the neo-Gramscian theory of hegemony is not as useful in explaining the rise and consolidation of the modern world system. In particular, while the force-consensus approach may indeed be relevant in examining relations among the Western countries, it is fundamentally wanting when applied to the third world. The two main reasons concern the persistent violence against the third world, and the dominance of race and racism a…
Killing the Third World
This article disputes explanations of American expansionism that are based on the requirements of national security or more abstract theories such as the balance of power. In contradistinction to the imperatives of defence and survival, the article shows how civilisational factors weighed heavily on the emergence of US grand strategy at the turn of the nineteenth century. In particular assumptions about the peoples of the Third World being lesser…
From sexation to sexualization
This article introduces two new concepts—dispersed submission (DS) and sexation—in an interrogation of the general structures and nuanced practices of the global sex industry. There is considerable stress on the ways in which practices of domination during colonialism set up a form of racio-gendered ‘path dependence’ now imbricated in the current neoliberal global political economy. The arguments emerge from both material practices and careful co…
Subsidiarity, Regional Governance, and Caribbean Security
The reconfiguration of the global security order since the late 1980s has had a heavy impact on regional security in the Caribbean. Having lost strategic importance, the Caribbean states have been attempting to restructure their relationship with the United States. These small states are interested in building a regional security regime that is inclusive, transparent, and accountable. This analysis shows how the principle of subsidiarity may be e…
Ideology, socialization and hegemony in Disciplinary International Relations
This article argues that Disciplinary International Relations (DIR) does not only explain international affairs, but it also socializes and hegemonizes publics and professionals into an ideological worldview consistent with the interest of states that underwrite the world economic and security order based on hegemonic liberalism. Considerable emphasis is placed on tracing the continuities between the early theorization of IR in the United Kingdom…
Frantz Fanon, race and world order
This chapter examines the relevance of Frantz Fanon for the study of global politics. While Fanon did not offer a ‘theory’ of international – or as I would prefer, global – relations, I intend to demonstrate that he did point to some of the constitutive antagonisms of global power relations. Of course, whether Fanon may or may not be considered relevant depends on one of the broader concerns of this book, namely, what is the meaning and purpose o…
Innovation and Transformation in International Studies
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new research problems, this collection of critically minded, original essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted directions. Bridging social theory and international relations theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributor…
Apertura
R. B. J. Walker (*) Colonialism without a civilizational mission is no colonialism at all. Ashis Nandy Race is a complex and multiply contested concept, pulled this way and that by opposing demands of culture and biology, knowledge and power. It animates antagonisms in academy, in homes, and on streets. Few conversations about race manage to avoid either engaged anger of conversationalists or sense that conversation has to move in many directions…
Racial Assumptions in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply
Randolph B. Persaud (*) Capitalism has generally found laborers when and where it needed them, and migratory movements have carried labor power to market all across the globe. --Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History These days, hate crimes occur with alarming frequency. In between these violent outbursts, I receive ominous missives launched with vitriol and resentments against the usual targeted groups, but especially the reviled alien…
Subsidiarity, Regional Governance, and Caribbean Security
The reconfiguration of the global security order since the late 1980s has had a heavy impact on regional security in the Caribbean. Having lost strategic importance, the Caribbean states have been attempting to restructure their relationship with the United States. These small states are interested in building a regional security regime that is inclusive, transparent, and accountable. This analysis shows how the principle of subsidiarity may be e…
A Newer, Truer, and More Moral Realism
William H. Thornton's Fire on the Rim: The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power Politics is a sustained, eloquent, and combative critique of realism, neorealism, reactionary modernization, and neoliberal globalization. It is also a bold effort to construct a framework of moral realism through the systematic incorporation of culture into international relations theory. Thornton's new moral geopolitics represents a cultural realism of the Left (p. …
Through, against, and beyond the racial state
This chapter argues that one of the ways in which race has been simultaneously repressed and its effects sustained in the international order is through the deployment of anticommunism in the Cold War. Anticommunism has a particular role to play in racial states. Three such states in the twentieth century manifested a particular concern with anticommunism: the United States, Australia and South Africa. In these states, anticommunism was peculiarl…
Race and Racism in International Relations
From sexation to sexualization
This article introduces two new concepts—dispersed submission (DS) and sexation—in an interrogation of the general structures and nuanced practices of the global sex industry. There is considerable stress on the ways in which practices of domination during colonialism set up a form of racio-gendered ‘path dependence’ now imbricated in the current neoliberal global political economy. The arguments emerge from both material practices and careful co…
Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence
This article argues that the neo-Gramscian theory of hegemony is not as useful in explaining the rise and consolidation of the modern world system. In particular, while the force-consensus approach may indeed be relevant in examining relations among the Western countries, it is fundamentally wanting when applied to the third world. The two main reasons concern the persistent violence against the third world, and the dominance of race and racism a…
Race, Gender and Culture in International Relations
Violence and ordering of the Third World
The decisive role violence has played in the ordering of the Third World cannot be ignored or consigned to the past. Accordingly, we argue for a more systematic and determined attention to the connections between the devastation unleashed by colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of large-scale violence in the post-independence periods. In contradistinction to situating violence in and against the Third World as a backdrop of incomplete modern…
Killing the Third World
This article disputes explanations of American expansionism that are based on the requirements of national security or more abstract theories such as the balance of power. In contradistinction to the imperatives of defence and survival, the article shows how civilisational factors weighed heavily on the emergence of US grand strategy at the turn of the nineteenth century. In particular assumptions about the peoples of the Third World being lesser…
A Neo-Gramscian/Postcolonial Engagement with Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire
Hegemony and the postcolonial state
Globalization as knowledge production and circulation
J oseph D arda . Empire of Defense
From the emergence of the national security state under President Truman through the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf Wars, Cold War, the war on terror, and the dronewar of Obama, Joseph Darda’s Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War demonstrates how war and combat have been transformed from the violent formation and maintenance of empire to the more benign and comfortable concept of defense—defense of the homeland, defen…
Violence and the Third World in International Relations
Towards a holistic understanding of Afghanistan
Ideology, socialization and hegemony in Disciplinary International Relations
This article argues that Disciplinary International Relations (DIR) does not only explain international affairs, but it also socializes and hegemonizes publics and professionals into an ideological worldview consistent with the interest of states that underwrite the world economic and security order based on hegemonic liberalism. Considerable emphasis is placed on tracing the continuities between the early theorization of IR in the United Kingdom…
Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney
This article examines the thinking and political practices of two of the Caribbean’s most noted political figures. Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney led epic struggles against authoritarianism in their native Guyana and contributed to the global fight for decolonization and national independence. The article also compares and contrasts the work of Jagan and Rodney
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works) · International relations (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works)