This volume focuses on the constitutive politics of civilizational identity, examining the practices through which notions of civilizational identity are produced and reproduced in different contexts, including the global credit regime, modernity debates, and the "war on terrorism".

Autorentext
MARTIN HALL is Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

PATRICK THADDEUS JACKSON is Associate Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; M.Hall & P.T.Jackson PART I: CIVILIZATION(S) AND IR THEORY Discourses of Civilizational Identity; J.O'Hagan Civilizations as Actors: A Transactional Account; P.T.Jackson Discussion; H.Alker PART II: CIVILIZATION(S), RELIGION, AND PSYCHOLOGY Civilizations, Postorientalism, and Islam; M.K.Pasha Not Waiting for the Barbarians; M.B. Salter Civilizations, Neo-Ghandianism, and the Hindu Self; C.Kinnvall Discussion; D.H.Nexon PART III: INTER-CIVILIZATIONAL ENCOUNTERS Marketing Global Standards of Civilization; L.Seabrooke & B.Bowden The Heterarchic Umma; P. Mandaville The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Making of World Order; J.Hobson The Status of Women and the Ordering of Human Societies Along the Stages of Civilization; A.Towns Discussion; J.Best PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS Pathways to Civilization; Y.Ferguson Toward a Fourth Generation of Civilizational Scholarship; M.Hall