This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the primary goal of bringing about world peace, the authors of this book argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition - that of the Round Table.The Round Table were a network of imperialists emerging in the late 1800s across five key British imperial societies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Their aim was to improve imperial governance, placing the empire into a better position to control world affairs. Although they ultimately failed to rearrange world order according to their vision, they did help to build what we now call the discipline of IR.Far from being scientific, the Round Table's 'scientific method' for the study of world affairs was rapidly subsumed into each geographical and political context. Through telling this story, the authors of the book recover it, bring it to the discipline of IR, and interrogate its meanings for the discipline today. They show the importance of the Global South to IR's foundations, and argue that IR scholarship in this period was intertwined with imperial racial thought in ways that the discipline should not and cannot forget.