1. Introduction Arlene B Tickner and David L. Blaney Section I: Security 2. Security in Arab World and Turkey: Differently Different Pinar Bilgin 3. Aberystwyth, Paris, Copenhagen. The Europeanness of New Schools of Security Theory in an American Field Ole Waever 4. Security Theorizing in China: Culture, Evolution and Social Practice Liu Yongtao 5. No Room for Theory? Security Studies in Latin America Arlene B. Tickner and Monica Herz Section II:. State, Sovereignty and Authority 6. The State of African State and Politics: Ghosts and Phantoms in Heart of Darkness Siba Grovogui 7. Contextualizing Rule in South Asia Siddharth Mallavarapu 8. The Latin American Nation-State and Fernando Lopez-Alves Section III: Globalization 9. Reading Global in Absence of Africa Isaac Kamola 10. Globalization: A Russian Perspective Andrei P. Tsygankov 11. Arab Scholars' Take on Globalization Wafaa Hasan and Bessma Momani Section IV:Secularism and Religion 12. Religion, Secularism and State in Southeast Asia Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid 13. Western Secularisms: Variation in a Doctrine and its Practice Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Ole Waever Section V:The 14. Contrived Boundaries, Kinship and Ubuntu: A (South) African View of the International Karen Smith 15. Social Science Research and Engagement in Pakistan Ayesha Khan