Meaning and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415258128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 200 str.

David J. Travis; P. Mandaville; Peter Mandaville

Opis

Are we, after the Cold War, living in a world without meaning? How do we define ourselves in a world seemingly devoid of ideological struggle or clear foundations? This volume brings together specialists in international relations to tackle a set of difficult questions about what it means to live in a globalized world where the purpose and direction of world politics are no longer clear-cut.

Spis treści

1. Andrew J. Williams Introduction
2. Andrew J. Williams Meaning and International Relations: Some Thoughts
3. Christopher Coker Surfing the Zeitgeist
4. Zaki Laidi The Delocalisation of Meaning
5. Gerard Delanty Meaning and Social Transformations: Ideology in a Post-Ideological Age
6. Stefan Elbe Eurosomnia: Europe's 'Spiritual Vitality' and the Debate on the European Idea
7. Annick Wibben Whose Meaning(s)?!: A Feminist Perspective on the Crisis of Meaning in International Relations
8. Tarja Värynen The Search for Meaning in Global Conjunctions: From Ethnographic Truth to Ethnopolitical Agency
9. Peter Mandaville When Meaning Travels: Muslim Translocality and the Politics of 'Authenticity'
10. Andrea Den Boer Messianic Moments and the Religious (Re)turn in International Relations
11. Stephen Chan Reliving the Boxer Uprising, or the Restricted Meaning of Civilisation
12. Peter Mandaville On the Danger of Premature Conclusion(s)

O autorze

Peter Mandaville is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University, Washington D.C. He was previously a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Recent publications include Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma and The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory from East West, a co-edited volume.
Andrew Williams is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Recent publications include Failed Imagination? New World Orders of the Twentieth Century. He is currently writing a book entitled The Victors and the Vanquished: Liberal Dilemmas and the Ending of Wars.