Owen Brown

Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty - Owen R Brown, 2026 Accounts of the ‘crisis’ of the liberal international order abound. However, many of the anxieties surrounding the future of this order expose a subtle investme...

My article, “Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty,” has now been published in International Relations. In it I explore how discourses of ’crisis’ in the liberal order expose a subterranean investment in colonial-racial hierarchies.
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A New World of Revolutions The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule

Very happy to share that my book, A New World of Revolutoins, now has a cover and page with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editorial team for coming up with a great design!

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Abstract of an International Theory article discussing the need for reevaluating agency and resistance in the context of empire and colonisation, mentioning specific historical examples such as the Black Loyalists and Indigenous colonists of New Granada.

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN

- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social

Very excited to see our article out in @internatltheory.bsky.social. In this article, @arturochang.bsky.social and I argue for the importance of tackling questions of agency and resistance from within colonial-racial orders through an examination of Black Loyalist and Indigenous royalist movements.

Very happy to see this article out at @internatltheory.bsky.social. @obrown.bsky.social and I draw on archival research to examine how Black and Indigenous royalists negotiated their standing from within colonial orders. Many thanks to the editorial team for a very constructive process!

Thanks Beth! Couldn’t have done it with all your guidance and support!

I am excited to share that I’ll be joining @uarkansas.bsky.social in the fall as Assistant Professor of International Organizations and Norms. Looking forward to working alongside a great group of scholars in the Political Science Department!

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

A Collective Effort to Remember Scientific Racism: The Opening of the Memorial Ihnestraße in Berlin Flowers were placed next to a stele in the opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial Site’s exhibition “History of Science and Injustice”, October 2024 (Photo by the author)by Thiago P. Barbosa The beauti…

How can we remember and confront the legacies of scientific racism and eugenics? I wrote a review about the new exhibition “Science and Injustice” of the Memorial Site Ihnestraße at the FU Berlin and its community-based participatory process: anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/2024/11/28/a...

Also be sure to check out the roundtable on “The Problem with International Order” for more great essays on the subject. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to share that my essay “The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition” is now out in Ethics & International Affairs. In it I argue that racialisation in the international order means we need to take seriously global calls for abolition. doi.org/10.1017/S089...

Also, can people please stop claiming that marginalised people and communities demanding (or “grabbing”) power from those who hold it unjustly is a bad thing? Maybe power is necessary to do “social justice”.

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

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Happy to share that my article "The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order" is now out in @iojournal.bsky.social. In it I argue that processes of racialization are central to the constitution of international order in modernity.