The Theory of Universal Racism: A New Version of American Cultural Dominance

Russia in Global Affairs. 2020. Vol. 18. No. 3. P. 182–199.

Lukin A.

Today the Western world seems to be witnessing the approach of a new totalitarian all-embracing theory that warrants the analysis of any social and historical phenomenon strictly from a “racial” (or anti-racist) point of view. Accusations of racism have been extending from public life not only to individual branches of knowledge, but also to science as a whole. These trends provide some insight into how international relations theory will evolve in the United States and Europe. The ideology of universal racism essentially consolidates American centrism by extrapolating the local American and partially Western European problem of racism to the entire world history, inflating it to the extent where it turns into the main, dominant factor of social development. Relying on its own tradition and inherent international nature, the Russian scientific school, together with 182 RUSSIA IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS The Theory of Universal Racism non-Western modern and traditional approaches, can play a leading role in the criticism of this new American centrism and reverse racism, while maintaining objectivity and normality in international relations studies.

Keywords: education, USA, ideology, racism, IR theory