Introduction / Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney -- Security in the Arab world and Turkey: differently different / Pinar Bilgin -- Aberystwyth, Paris, Copenhagen. the Europeanness of new schools of security theory in an American field / Ole Waever -- Security theorizing in China: culture, evolution and social practice / Liu Yongtao -- No room for theory? security studies in Latin America / Arlene B. Tickner and Mônica Herz -- The state of the African state and politics: ghosts and phantoms in the heart of darkness / Siba Grovogui -- Contextualizing rule in South Asia / Siddharth Mallavarapu -- The Latin American nation-state and the international / Fernando López-Alves -- Reading the global in the absence of Africa / Isaac Kamola -- Globalization: a Russian perspective / Andrei P. Tsygankov -- Arab scholars' take on globalization / Wafaa Hasan and Bessma Momani -- Religion, secularism and the state in Southeast Asia / Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid -- Western secularisms: variation in a doctrine and its practice / Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Ole Waever -- Contrived boundaries, kinship and Ubuntu: a (South) African view of the international / Karen Smith -- Social science research and engagement in Pakistan / Ayesha Khan.