Part 1 Refiguring "international relations": introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; political prosaics, transversal politics and the anarchical world, David Campbell; understanding international relations after the Cold War - probing beyond the realist reality, Jim George. Part 2 Realisms: introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; rewriting the Caribbean - identity crisis as literature, Folke Lindahl; the politics of totality in magic realism, Bruno Bosteel et al. Part 3 Boundary anxieties: introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; Tocqueville, territory and violence, William E. Connolly; unmapping and remapping the world - foreign policy as aesthetic practice, Kennan Ferguson; cartographic anxiety - mapping the body politic in India, Sankaran Krishna. Part 4 Modernity's identity spaces: introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; narratives of modernity - perspective of an oriental despot, Abbas Milani; refugees - the modern political condition, Nicholas Xenos; the implosion of modernity, Jonathan Friedman. Part 5 Transversal flows: introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; border crossings/shifting identities - minorities, gender and the state in international perspective, Jan Jindy Pettman; transnational/transborder bodies - resistance, accommodation and exile in refugee and migration movements on the US-Mexican border, Nevzat Soguk; technologies of national desire, Richard Maxwell. Part 6 Gay diasporas: introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; queer peregrinations, Cindy Patton; the displacement of Cuban homosexuality in the fiction and autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, Benigno Sanchez-Eppler. Part 7 War and identity: introduction, Michael J. Shapiro; remembering Pearl Harbour - the semiotics of the "Arizona" Museum, Phyllis Turnbull; from a kibbutz journal - reflections on gender, race and militarism in Israel, Kathy Ferguson; warring bodies and bodies politic - tribal warriors versus state soldiers, Michael J. Shapiro.