“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate” - Edward Said, 2003

In this seminar, we are going to address Postcolonial Theory from the perspective of international relations. As a diverse and rich tradition of scholarship and activism, Postcolonial Theory has in fact impacted and influenced a variety of different fields of inquiry, including comparative literature, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and cultural studies. Within the discipline of International Relations, issues of post- and neo-colonialism struggled to surface at first, while becoming gradually an essential contribution to a more critical and reasoned understanding of our world.