Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-311) and index.

Introduction: Power in a postcolonial world: race, gender, and class in international relations / Geeta Chowdhry and Sheila Nair. Postcolonial criticism: international reality and modes of inquiry / Siba N. Grovogui -- Situating race in international relations: the dialectics of civilizational security in American immigration / Randolph B. Persaud -- Beyond hegemonic state(ment)s of nature: indigenous knowledge and non-state possibilities in international relations / J. Marshall Beier -- Cultural chauvinism and the liberal international order: “West versus rest” in Asia’s financial crisis / L.H.M. Ling -- Sexing globalization in international relations: migrant sex and domestic workers in Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey / Anna M. Agathagelou -- In one innings: national identity in postcolonial times / Sankaran Krishna -- The “new cold war”: secularism, orientalism, and postcoloniality / Shampa Biswas -- A story to be told: IR, postcolonialism, and the discourse of Tibetan (trans)national identity / Dibyesh Anand -- Postcolonial interrrogations of child labor: human rights, carpet, trade, and Rugmark in India / Geeta Chowdhry -- Human rights and postcoloniality: representing Burma / Sheila Nair.

This work uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring or world politics. It addresses further themes central to postcolonial theory, such as the impact of representation on power relations, the relationship between global capital and power and the space for resistance and agency in the context of global power asymmetries.