Dr Nivi Manchanda is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. She is interested in questions of race, empire, and gender and has published in, among other journals, Security Dialogue, Millennium, Current Sociology, and Third World Quarterly. She is the co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (Routledge: 2014) She is currently the co-convenor of the British International Studies’ Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group and the co-editor of the Journal Politics. Her monograph: Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge has been published recently with Cambridge University Press (2020).