Introduction : Learning Anew : Asia in IR and World Politics / L.H.M. Ling -- Dialogue of Civilizations : A Critical Security Studies Perspective / Pinar Bilgin -- Cosmopolitan Disorders : Ignoring Power, Overcoming Diversity, Transcending Borders / Everita Silina -- Dams and "Green Growth"? : Development Dissonance and the Transnational Percolations of Power / Payal Banerjee -- Latitudes of Anxieties : Bengali-Speaking Muslims and the Postcolonial State in Assam / Rafiul Ahmed -- The Nation-State Problematic : South Asia's Experience / Binoda K. Mishra -- The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute : An Ethos of Appropriateness and China's "Loss" of Ryukyu / Ching-Chang Chen -- Sovereignty or Identity? : The Significance of the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands Dispute for Taiwan / Boyu Chen -- Stories of IR : Turkey and the Cold War / Zeynep Gulsah Capan -- The Postcolonial Paradox of Eastern Agency / John M. Hobson -- Justifying Trans-Cultural Studies / Gavan Duffy -- Anti-Colonial Empires : Creation of AfroAsian Spaces of Resistance / Clemens Hoffman -- From Territory to Travel : Metabolism, Metamorphosis, and Mutation in IR / Josuke Ikeda -- Empire of the Mind : Jose Rizal and Proto-Nationalism in the Philippines / Alan Chong -- The Korean Wave : Korean Popular Culture at the Intersection of State, Economy, and History / Jooyoun Lee -- Romancing Westphalia : Westphalian IR and Romance of the Three Kingdoms / L.H.M. Ling -- Conclusion : Uncontained Worlds / Stephen Chan.