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".

"Here is the research front on relations between civilizations: A thoroughly dialogical immersion in debates on how these cultures writ large hybridize and shape contemporary global life."

Iver B. Neumann, Professor of Russian Studies, Oslo University and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway

"This volume represents a very timely and profound engagement with the concept of civilization, indispensable to anyone who has tried to think critically and constructively about this concept in international relations."

Jens Bartelson, Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen

"Hall and Jackson's edited volume exposes the long and troubled history of one of the most frequently used and abused concepts in international relations - the concept of civilization. This erudite, sophisticated collection of essays represents a must-read for any scholar of international relations, both as an exploration of the conceptual basis for the West's troubled relation with the rest of the world, and as a theoretical blue print for future critical engagements with the foundations of our discipline."

Aida A. Hozic, Professor of International Relations, University of Florida

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