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The relationship between the political and socially constructed nature of territory (or, territories' 'constitutive properties') and international politics has recently attracted substantial attention from scholars hailing from political science as well as political geography and critical international relations. The conversations across these scholarly traditions, however, leave a lot to be desired. The question then becomes, how can we, if at all, facilitate further interaction and cross-fertilization across seemingly disparate literatures? This study proposes a strategy of 'pragmatic interaction', which entails three steps: (i) establishing a simple conceptual framework that would be both recognizable and agreeable to scholars hailing from different perspectives; (ii) emphasizing a number of research topics that are of relevance to these scholars; and (iii) examining some of the recent entries from the relative literatures in the light of the identified research topics. The analysis suggests that there is much potential for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization over two broad research areas – 'territorial heterogeneity' of the past and present global territorial orders and the relationship between territory and power – also driving attention to potential research venues such as territorial interpretations of the anarchy/hierarchy problematique and the interaction between identity and territoriality.

Chapter 1 The rise and rise of permitted development in England -- Chapter 2 Deregulation, neoliberalism and the planning system -- Chapter 3 The planning context for office-to-residential change of use -- Chapter 4 Understanding office-to-residential permitted development -- Chapter 5 Overview of office-to-residential conversion in England and our case studies -- Chapter 6 The Camden story: threatening the creative economy? -- Chapter 7 The Croydon story: slums of the future? -- Chapter 8 The Leeds story: city centre students and industrial estate living -- Chapter 9 The Leicester story: positive reuse or threatening an emerging private rental sector? -- Chapter 10 The Reading story: loss of affordable housing in the vibrant South East? -- Chapter 11 Alternative approaches to governing change of use: Scotland and the Netherlands -- Chapter 12 Conclusions and implications for future practice

1. A CHECKERED RECORD THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE PROBLEMS OF WAR AND PEACE IS CHEQUERED. OFTEN IT MAKES DISMAL READING. VERY OFTEN CHURCHES HAVE CONDONED AND EVEN ACTIVELY SUPPORTED WARS IN WHICH THE SOVEREIGN OF THEIR LANDS TOOK PART. IN MANY CASES ARMY CHAPLAINS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FRONTLINE PROVIDED MORAL ENCOURAGEMENT BEFORE BATTLES. IN THE EARLY CHURCH, PACIFISM WAS THE PREDOMINANT ATTITUDE OF THE FOLLOWERS OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE. BUT WHEN THE NEW RELIGION ASCENDED TO POWER IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, IT ALSO LOST ITS POLITICAL AND MILITARY INNOCENCE. CHRISTMAS JOINED THE LEGIONS. THE CHURCH FATHERS DEVELOPED THE FIRST TENETS OF A BODY OF THOUGHT WHICH POSTERITY NAMED THE DOCTRINE OF THE JUST WAR. IT LEGITIMIZED WAR AS A FINAL RESORT IN CASES WHERE NOT PUTTING UP ARMS WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN AN EVEN GREATER CALAMITY THAN WAR ITSELF.

Endowed now with a convincing history of itself, security studies needs a sociological analysis of its workings. The 'post-Kuhnian sociology of science' in the Buzan & Hansen (2009) volume is too sociologically thin and offers a disembodied history of ideas, not a sociology of flesh-and-blood scholars. This article suggests how a sociology of security studies can be strung between the two poles of a sociology of international relations and theories of expertise. Special attention must be paid to the role of 'security theory' for policy analysis, as well as the variation over time and geographically in the institutional chains connecting academe and policy, especially the changing nature of think-tanks. The centre of analysis should be networks of scholars manoeuvring these cross-pressures and making research and other career choices. Through its focus on form, this approach can explain dominant styles of scholarship in the USA and Europe as ways of meeting contrasting demands from academic institutions and policy relevance. The article ends with an assessment of the prospects for security studies. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright PRIO, www.prio.no]

The position of the United States on the American continent--some phases of the Monroe doctrine, by F.B. Loomis.--The relation of the Latin-American countries with each other, by T. Williams, W.I. Buchanan, J.B. Moore, M.A. Calderon.--Europe and Latin America, by G.W. Scott, C.S. Walton, A.G. Keller.--Political relations of the United States with Latin America, by J.H. Latané, H.P. Willis.--Commercial relations of the United States with Latin America, by F. Emory, E. Nelson, W.H. Schoff, H.C. Taylor.--Proceedings of the seventh annual meeting.--Book department. ; Mode of access: Internet.