Randolph B. Persaud is Associate Professor at the School of International Service at the American University, Washington D.C., USA. He has published extensively on race and IR, hegemony and counterhegemony, and the politics of immigration.

Narendran Kumarakulasingam teaches in the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and is a Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada.

1. Violence and ordering of the Third World: an introduction Randolph B. Persaud and Narendran Kumarakulasingam 2. Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary Alexander D. Barder 3. Evangelical violence: Western Christianity and the use of force against the Third World Christopher Rhodes 4. The horror of 'horrorism': laundering metropolitan killings Narendran Kumarakulasingam 5. Killing the Third World: civilisational security as US grand strategy Randolph B. Persaud 6. Manhunt Presidency: Obama, race, and the Third World Sankaran Krishna 7. A 'synchronised attack' on life: the Saudi-led coalition's 'hidden and holistic' genocide in Yemen and the shared responsibility of the US and UK Jeffrey S. Bachman 8. Violence on Iraqi bodies: decolonising economic sanctions in security studies Mariam Georgis and Riva Gewarges 9. Colonial legacies, armed revolts and state violence: the Maoist movement in India Swati Parashar 10. Corporate power, US drug enforcement and the repression of indigenous peoples in Latin America Horace Bartilow 11. The violence work of transnational gangs in Central America María José Méndez 12. The coloniality of abridgment: afterlives of mass violence in Cambodia and the US Emily Mitamura 13. The nexus between vulnerabilities and violence in the Caribbean W. Andy Knight