Pinar Bilgin is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology.

International Relations continues to come under fire for its relative absence of international perspectives. In this exciting new volume, Pinar Bilgin encourages readers to consider both why and how 'non-core' geocultural sites allow us to think differently about key aspects of global politics. A genuinely innovative contribution to this rapidly emerging field within IR, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical security, international relations theory and Global IR.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Limits of theorising about IR and security

Chapter 2: Critical theorizing about IR and security: Who does the theorising?

Chapter 3: How to access others' conceptions of the international?

Chapter 4: Inquiring into security in the international

Chapter 5: Inquiring into the international in security

Chapter 6: Civilisation, Dialogue, In/security

Conclusion