Concluding the acclaimed and award-winning trilogy on 'Modes of Foreign
Relations and Political Economy', this is a magisterial historical sociology of
International Relations theory. In The Discipline of Western Supremacy Kees van
der Pijl argues that, from the late European Middle Ages, Anglophone thinkers
articulated an imperial world-view which was adopted by aspirant elites
elsewhere. Nation-state formation under the auspices of the English-speaking
West has henceforth informed thinking about international affairs. After
decolonisation the study of comparative politics continued to develop under
those same auspices as part of a comprehensive framework. This book, the first
of its kind, aims to provide a complete overview of mainstream International
Relations as