Alexander Anievas, Nivi Manchanda and Robbie Shilliam - Confronting the Global Colour Line: an Introduction, PART 1: CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF RACE AND RACISM, 2. Errol Henderson - Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism in International Relations Theory, 3. Debra Thompson - Through, Against, and Beyond the Racial State: The Transnational Stratum of Race, 4. Branwen Gruffydd-Jones - ''Good Governance' and 'State Failure': the Pseudo-Science of Statesmen in Our Times, 5. John M. Hobson - Re-Embedding the Global Colour Line within Post-1945 International Theory, 6. Srdjan Vucetic - Against Race Taboos: The Global Colour Line in Philosophical Discourse, PART 2: INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES OF RACE AND RACISM, 7. Randolph B. Persaud - Colonial Violence: Race and Gender on the Sugar Plantations of British Guiana, 8. Sankaran Krishna - A Postcolonial Racial/Spatial Order: Gandhi, Ambedkar and the Construction of the International, 9. Richard Seymour - The Cold War, American Anticommunism and the Global 'Colour Line', 10. Robert Knox - Race, Racialisation and Rivalry in the International Legal Order, PART 3: REFLECTIONS ON THE GLOBAL COLOUR LINE, 11. David Roediger - What Would It Mean to Transform International Relations?, 12. Charles W. Mills - Unwriting and Unwhitening the World

The aim of this text is therefore to mark the long overdue arrival of - some would say return to - the "race question" in IR

Alexander Anievas is the Anna Beigun Warburg Junior Research Fellow at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is the editor of Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge, 2010) and author of the forthcoming manuscript Capital, the State and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945 (University of Michigan Press). He is a member of the editorial collective Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.

Nivi Manchanda is a PhD candidate at the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation looks at Anglo-American representations of Afghanistan. She is also the editor in chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Robbie Shilliam is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He publishes widely on issues to do with race, colonialism and international relations. He is author of The Black Pacific: Anticolonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (Bloomsbury Academic Press, Forthcoming 2014); and editor of International Relations and Non-Western Thoughts: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity (London: Routledge, 2010). He is chair of the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association (2012-2013), and on the Advisory Board of the Transnational Decolonial Institute.