lead to the end of the world hegemony of whites. a future that appeared to many to be in the offing. The scholars had also identified the epicenter of the global biological threat in the three square miles or so at the northern end of Manhattan borough known as Harlem. Each of these claims at first presentation seems false because 100 year later, a new common sense has taken hold. Today, professors teach that international relations is the scientific study of the interaction among"states(or"countries" to the uninitiated), with other, lesser"actors" trailing behind They also speak more abstractly about study of the"state system." Studens interested in race relations look elsewhere in course catalogs and to other experts and departments. So too do those wanting to learn about empire