The increased interest in the developing world as a major source of instability and threat to international security has directed my research to evolve from exploring the conditions under which ethnic identity becomes politically salient in contemporary Africa, to collapsed states, and then to studies of globalization and disorder. Within the context of globalized disorder, my research agenda is focusing on issues of social control and movements and civil conflict around the world. More precisely, with the end of the Cold War, and with it the dissolution of the bipolar system of world order, my research interests include transnational insurgency led by non-state actors and the emerging problems of sovereignty and empire in the 21st century. As conflict shifts from an East-West to a North-South axis along with international power vacuum, I examine how the stability of the Cold War system can be replaced with a new world order to regulate the current global disorder. I do so by analyzing the rise of regional, ethnic, and religious conflict as a top-tier international security issue, carrying implicit issues of homogenization messages, which in combination with the globalized “borderlessness” demands a cultural pluralist reaction.