IR Thought: Reflections on Essential Works

This blog is for students in Professor Jackson's Graduate Colloquium, "Master Works of International Relations," to reflect on and debate the major themes and arguments presented by political philosophers of International Relations. (Please excuse mike's spelling)

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Right On!

"NOT so very long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it."

Its been nearly fifty years since Sarte wrote these words in the preface to Fanz Fanon's the Wretched of the Earth, it seems with that with International Relations and the Problem of Difference, IR is begining to catch-up.

This might sound a little rediculous, but I accually think that this is probably the most practically aplicable work that we have read all semmester. This is becouse it grapples with issues that we will all have to deal with in the feild.

I will alberate on this more in my next blogg...

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