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Overview
Are the secular foundations of international relations sustainable at present? This comprehensive study shows how the global resurgence of religion confronts international relations theory with a theoretical challenge comparable to that raised by the end of the Cold War or the emergence of globalization. The volume tries to shake the secular foundational myths of the discipline and outline the need for an expansion into religiously inspired spheres of thought. It also challenges the most condemning accusation against religion: the view that the politicization of religion is always a threat to security and inimical to the resolution of conflict. Finally, the task of demystifying religion is taken further with an argument for a stronger and "progressive" political engagement of the worldwide religious traditions in the contemporary globalized era.
Contributors
Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Fred Dallmayr, Packey Dee Professor of Government, University of Notre Dame, USA John L. Esposito, Director of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, USA Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University and currently Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Andreas Hasenclever, Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany Vendulka Kubálková, Professor in the School of International Studies, University of Miami, USA Cecilia Lynch, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, USA Terry Nardin, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Volker Rittberger, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tubingen, Germany Scott M. Thomas, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Bath, UK John O. Voll, Professor of Islamic History at Georgetown University, USA Ole Wæver, Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denma
Editorial Reviews
Foreign Affairs
Most thinking about international relations ignores religion. But in fact, religious influences have always been more important than most people realize — and today, that importance is only growing. This collection of essays provides a useful survey of how religion, particularly Christianity and Islam, has affected modern international politics. Scott Thomas disputes the presumption that religion and cultural pluralism cannot be reconciled in international society and argues that to see today's religious movements as part of a fundamentalist-driven clash of civilizations misses their role in a broader struggle to find alternative paths to modernity. Other authors challenge the assumption that the politicization of religion is inevitably a threat to international security. Overall, the book is short on empirical explorations of contemporary religious disputes, but its message is sensible: diplomats and scholars must engage, not ignore, global religious movements.Product Details
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Meet the Author
Fabio Petito is Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations, ESCP-EAP in Paris and teaches International Relations at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.
Pavlos Hatzopoulos is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics.
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