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Apr
Beyond Containment – Confronting Racial Hierarchies in International Law: Norm Entrepreneurship at the UN – Addressing Racial Equality Across Borders and the South–North Divide
[Yang Han, PhD, is a Research Associate at China Centre, University of Oxford] Racism has been integral to international relations: e.g., scientific racism, social Darwinism, and the “yellow peril” discourses, just to name a few. Racist beliefs were often used to justify colonialism and imperialism, and invoked to instigate violence, hatred, and discrimination. Likewise, the principle of sovereign equality helps states...