ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together some of the intersecting work that does not fi t neatly into the above subfi elds to allow more explicit attention to race, religion, secularisms, alternative histories of IR, and continuing issues in globalization. Race has continually surfaced in the chapters of this volume because interpretivist work on the causes of imperialist wars, inequities in the global distribution of wealth, and biases in international legal instruments cannot ignore it. Religion-and its secular “other”—were ignored until the late 1990s by critical as well as conventional international relations, and then emerged as a factor almost exclusively in security debates regarding the causes of post-Cold War confl ict. Ironically, however, religion-and secularism-are now major topics in IR, although they still sit uneasily in conventional subfi elds other than security, while issues of race continue to be pushed to the sidelines by liberal cosmopolitan pretentions.
