| Description |
1 online resource (x, 186 pages). |
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| Series |
Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 22
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Routledge advances in international relations and politics ; 22.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Meaning and international relations: some thoughts / Andrew Williams -- Surfing the Zeitgeist / Christopher Coker -- The delocalisation of meaning / Zaki Laïdi -- Meaning and social transformations: ideology in a post-ideological age / Gerard Delanty -- Eurosomnia: Europe's 'spiritual vitality' and the debate on the European idea / Stefan Elbe -- Whose meaning(s)?!: a feminist perspective on the crisis of meaning in international relations / Annick T.R. Wibben -- The search for meaning in global conjunctions: from ethnographic truth to ethnopolitical agency / Tarja Väyrynen -- When meaning travels: Muslim translocality and the politics of 'authenticity' / Peter Mandaville -- Messianic moments and the religious (re)turn in international relations / Andrea den Boer -- Reliving the Boxer Uprising, or, The restricted meaning of civilisation / Stephen Chan -- On the danger of premature conclusion(s) / Peter Mandaville. |
| Summary |
This innovative 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. What emerges from these essays is a very clear sense that while we may be living in an era that lacks a single, universal purpose, ours is still a world replete with meaning. The authors in this volume stress the need for a pluralistic conception of meaning in a globalized world and demonstrate how increased communication and interaction in transnational s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International relations -- Philosophy.
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International relations -- Philosophy. |
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International relations -- Methodology.
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International relations -- Methodology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mandaville, Peter G., 1971-
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Williams, Andrew J., 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meaning and international relations. London : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2002010745 |
| ISBN |
0203167554 (electronic book) |
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9780203167557 (electronic book) |
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0203262441 (Adobe eReader format) |
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9780203262443 (Adobe eReader format) |
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041525812X (Cloth) |
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9780415258128 (print) |
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