Renée Marlin-Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Food Fights: International Regimes and the Politics of Agricultural Trade Disputes (published by Routledge) and Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy.

• 1. Introduction 2. Human Nature and World Politics: Ecce Hayward Alker's Homo Politicus as Homo Humanitatis 3. On the Nature of Empirical Evidence 4. A Fairy Tale of Science: Playing with Hayward Alker 5. Arguing Gender and International Relations: A Dialectical-Hermeneutical Approach 6. World Orders in Central Asia 7. Dialectics of Civilizations: A Cosmic Perspective 8. "Modern Order/Disorder": Notes for a Future Archeologist 9. Two Dilemmas of Democracy in the 21st Century 10. Alkerian Reformulations of Metaphor and IR 11. Authentic Methods for Emancipatory Peace Research: Alker’s Legacy in Relatus and Pragmatic Analysis 12. "Hi-Tech Hermeneutics": Combining Rigor and Alternative Epistemologies of Social Science Afterword