In the last few fateful months of 2001, we published a Special l ue of Alternatives (volum 26:4) on Race and International Relations," which seems to have received a warm receptio in many quarters. Since then, political life has been subject to profound d and mations on many dimensions As i and namics, it has becom more difficult to ignore the role of racialized practices in contemporary political life but als more obvious that race cannot be treatea as a monolithic category set a from all those othe apparently discrete categories class, gender, culture, economy, society, and so on-that neces sarily bleed into each other in complex and ever-changing relations of coloniality. In this presen Special Issue, we revisit the interplay of race and international relations with a collection essays that are especially attuned to both relationalities and unpredictable possibilities in existential contexts.