8. As coda to Karp's book: John Forster & Allen Dulles were raised in Good Hope plantation in South Carolina, originally a slave plantation
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9. The plantation that the Dulles Bros. grew up on was one of biggest in USA & formed research basis for Herb Gutman's work on slave family
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10. When you think about it, makes sense that those possessing master class hauteur in racist society would take charge of foreign policy
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11. What I'd suggest is that from Calhoun to Kennan (& beyond) domestic racial attitudes shaped how foreign non-European nations treated.
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12. Or to flip it the other way, this same foreign policy elite saw black America as an internal colony within the American nation.
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13. This habit of mind can be seen in Kennan's desire in 1970s to emulate apartheid South Africa & create Bantustans for black Americans
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14. Questions I'm raising are mainly taken up by historians, but would be good for International Relations as a discipline to grapple with
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15. IR as a discipline is notoriously loathe to connect domestic nature of regimes with foreign policy, but here's a place to start. The end
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dominant “open economy politics” approach in IPE derives international economic policies from constellations of domestic interests
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Absolutely right that race issues sorely understudied but domestic-international relationship is dominant engine of IR these days
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Yeah, my formulation was too glib and broad.
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Again, in fairness the kinds of relationships studied are not those that are of concern to you.
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