Writing the History of the Commonwealth of Nations: International Relations and Disciplinary Dialogue
Ecrire l’histoire du Commonwealth des Nations : relations internationales et dialogues disciplinaires
Résumé
This article does not propose to retrace the history of the contemporary Commonwealth but rather to show how the dialogue across disciplines has renewed the history of the organisation and the extent to which the Commonwealth of Nations, as a geopolitical space, a multilateral international actor and the object of diverse political imaginaries, is a relevant critical tool for the (international, transnational and connected) history of the contemporary world. It concludes that for research, interdisciplinary dialogue is a means of achieving some balance between the Commonwealth as an idea, as practice and as institution (three aspects which evolve over time and that different actors formulate, implement and interpret in various ways), in order to propose a study of international relations in all their depth.