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The family of nations. Kinship as an international ordering principle in the nineteenth century.

Written by

Morten Skumsrud Andersen
Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Research Group on Global Order and Diplomacy
Benjamin de Carvalho
Research Professor

Ed.

Summary:

This chapter suggests that the phrase ‘the family of nations’ for a long time was more commonly deployed amongst international actors themselves to describe ‘the international’ than more common concepts in contemporary IR scholarship such as ‘international system’, ‘society’, and ‘community’. The authors argue that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the concept of a family of nations was integral to legitimizing strategies for coercive measures and colonial rule.

Themes

  • Diplomacy
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Historical IR

Written by

Morten Skumsrud Andersen
Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Research Group on Global Order and Diplomacy
Benjamin de Carvalho
Research Professor

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