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  • 15 - A White Knight in Shining Armour? Ethiopia, International Organisations, and the Global Colour Line

  • from Capital, Class, and Political Economy
  • Edited by Negar Mansouri, Copenhagen Business School, Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, University of Vienna
  • Book:
    Ways of Seeing International Organisations
    Published online:
    17 April 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025, pp 291-308
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    By focusing on the relations between the polity of Ethiopia and the institutions of international ordering – the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations, chief among them – in this chapter I explore the problem of the ‘global colour line’ in relation to international institutions. In particular, I trace the lofty promises, and resounding disappointments, that the United Nations (as a proverbial White, and male, Knight) offered the racialised peoples of the world – and Ethiopia, in particular – in their attempt to challenge a racialised and hierarchical global order. The result is neither a blind celebration of the United Nations’ anticolonial potential, nor a resolute condemnation of its imperial lineage. Instead, I want to embrace the ambiguities offered by the metaphor of this racialised and gendered saviour trope – especially in relation to the racialised savage non-European other. For in any attempt to overturn the global colour line, the United Nations and its family of international organisations will prove to be both utterly indispensable and insufficient.