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Keywords: Civilising offensives, colonialism, established-outsider relations, global interconnectedness, international society

The analysis of the ‘standard of civilisation’ draws attention to the need to broaden process-sociological analysis to explain how state formation and conceptions of civilisation, the rise of overseas empires and the emergence of the international society of states shaped long-term patterns of social and political change that have affected humanity as a whole. The concept is one illustration of how the European civilising process influenced world politics, and process sociology helps to explain its development. Abstract: The ‘standard of civilisation’ was used by international lawyers in the nineteenth century to defend the Europeans’ right to colonise and control non-European societies.