Meaning and international relations

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The question of how one defines the central meaning of international relations is the focus of this edited volume. The contributors adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives drawing on postmodernism, feminism, Islam, classical realist theory and ethnopolitics.

Author(s): Peter Mandaville, Andrew Williams
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 197
Tags: Международные отношения;Международные отношения;

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Meaning and international relations: some thoughts......Page 19
Surfing the Zeitgeist......Page 31
The delocalisation of meaning......Page 49
Meaning and social transformations: ideology in a post-ideological age......Page 62
Eurosomnia: Europe's 'spiritual vitality' and the debate on the European idea......Page 76
Whose meaning(s)?! A feminist perspective on the crisis of meaning in international relations......Page 97
The search for meaning in global conjunctions: from ethnographic truth to ethnopolitical agency......Page 117
When meaning travels: Muslim translocality and the politics of 'authenticity'......Page 128
Messianic moments and the religious (re)turn in international relations......Page 150
Reliving the Boxer uprising; or, the restricted meaning of civilisation......Page 164
On the danger of premature conclusion(s)......Page 171
Bibliography......Page 180
Index of names......Page 194