Xavier Mathieu is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on Sovereignty, International Interventions (the Responsibility to Protect, Peacebuilding), Civilisation and Eurocentrism, and Identity/Difference in International Encounters. He has published articles on these topics in International Relations, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of International Political Theory, the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and Global Responsibility to Protect. He has also co-edited (with Pol Bargues-Pédreny) The Politics of Peacebuilding in a Diverse World (Routledge, 2019).

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• Introduction  Chapter 1: Revealing ‘civilised sovereignty’: The myth of sovereignty as equality and the maintenance of Eurocentrism in IR  Chapter 2: Sovereignty as a performative concept  Chapter 3: The writing of the ideal sovereign state: French theorists and civilised sovereignty  Chapter 4: Sovereign doubts: Civilisation and savagery disrupt the colonial frontiers  Chapter 5: (Re-)establishing the sovereign, creating a familiar – but inferior – Other  Chapter 6: Naturalising the sovereign/colonial frontiers: The interplay between internal and external civilised identities  Conclusion

Xavier Mathieu is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on Sovereignty, International Interventions (the Responsibility to Protect, Peacebuilding), Civilisation and Eurocentrism, and Identity/Difference in International Encounters. He has published articles on these topics in International Relations, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of International Political Theory, the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and Global Responsibility to Protect. He has also co-edited (with Pol Bargues-Pédreny) The Politics of Peacebuilding in a Diverse World (Routledge, 2019).

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• Introduction  Chapter 1: Revealing ‘civilised sovereignty’: The myth of sovereignty as equality and the maintenance of Eurocentrism in IR  Chapter 2: Sovereignty as a performative concept  Chapter 3: The writing of the ideal sovereign state: French theorists and civilised sovereignty  Chapter 4: Sovereign doubts: Civilisation and savagery disrupt the colonial frontiers  Chapter 5: (Re-)establishing the sovereign, creating a familiar – but inferior – Other  Chapter 6: Naturalising the sovereign/colonial frontiers: The interplay between internal and external civilised identities  Conclusion