In contrast to earlier, more celebratory accounts, more recent scholarship on the United Nations Security Council's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda reveals the racial–colonial logics deeply woven into the very fabric of the agenda that contribute to reproducing hierarchies, inequalities, and exclusions. Building on this body of literature, this article investigates in more detail how race shapes the United Kingdom's engagement with and institutionalization of the WPS agenda, reinforcing particular domestic identities. Drawing from a rich body of new empirical material, including documentary sources and interview data, the analysis excavates four interlinked racial–colonial practices: (1) the erasure of Britain's imperial and colonial history; (2) the production of new geographies of empire; (3) the construction of cultural inferiority of the “other”; and (4) nation branding efforts that construct the UK as the repository of leadership and expertise. I argue that the UK serves as an illustrative case that yields significant empirical and theoretical insights regarding how race is central to the institutionalization and implementation of the WPS agenda by national governments in the Global North and how, in turn, the WPS agenda enables those governments to identify as morally and culturally superior, thereby justifying racialized hierarchies in international relations.

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种族在英国妇女、和平与安全议程的制度化和实施中的（消失）出现

与早先的庆祝活动相比，最近关于联合国安理会妇女、和平与安全（WPS）议程的学术研究揭示了种族-殖民逻辑深深地融入了议程的结构中，这些逻辑有助于再现等级制度、不平等、和排除。基于这些文献，本文更详细地调查了种族如何塑造英国对 WPS 议程的参与和制度化，从而加强特定的国内身份。借鉴大量新的经验材料，包括文献资料和访谈数据，分析挖掘了四种相互关联的种族-殖民实践：（1）英国帝国和殖民历史的抹杀；(2) 帝国新地理的产生；(3)“他者”的文化劣势建构；(4) 国家品牌建设工作，将英国建设成为领导力和专业知识的宝库。我认为英国可以作为一个说明性案例，就种族如何成为全球北方国家政府制度化和实施 WPS 议程的核心以及 WPS 议程如何反过来使这些政府产生重要的经验和理论见解确定自己在道德和文化上更优越，从而为国际关系中的种族化等级制度辩护。