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The Quest For Security: Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898-1931
My book, published in 2020 from Cambridge University Press, asks how security fears and militarization shaped certain colonies’ emergence from colonial status. The book focuses on India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, tracing their adaptation toward international norms that conflated state sovereignty with military competency. This process reshaped constitutional and racial relationships, remaking and reifying the hierarchies of colonialism. Order here and here.