Intra-elite, state-centric society is a strategic front, and ought to be defended and put to use in the continued development of a global and decolonial turn in IR.
A reckoning with the traditional diplomatic community
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Patrick Quinton-Brown is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Singapore Management University. Previously he was Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University where he also held a Senior College Lectureship at University College, Oxford. His research focuses on sovereignty, intervention, critical and historical methods, and the Global South in the globalization of international society. It has recently been published in International Affairs, International Relations, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and Review of International Studies. His first book, Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.