GLOBAL ORDERS AND CIVILIZATIONS:PERSPECTIVES FROM HISTORY,PHILOSOPHY AND INTERNATIONALRELATIONS -- FOCUS ON CIVILIZATIONS AND CULTURES -- GLOBAL ORDERS AND CIVILIZATIONS:PERSPECTIVES FROM HISTORY,PHILOSOPHY AND INTERNATIONALRELATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- A NOTE ON THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- BEYOND 'UNDER-THEORIZING' AND 'ENDISM':TOWARDS A NEW SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVEON GLOBAL ORDERS AND CIVILIZATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART IGLOBAL ORDER FROM THE PRISMOF CIVILIZATIONS: CONCEPTUALAND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- CIVILIZATION, MODE OF PRODUCTIONAND THE WORLD SYSTEM:THE EXPLANATORY SIGNIFICANCE OF MACROSOCIOLOGICALCATEGORIES -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM HISTORICAL MATERIALISM TO DIALECTICAL SOCIOLOGY -- FROM THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE TO THE DIALECTICAL SPIRAL -- TOWARDS A DIALECTICAL SOCIOLOGY -- THE CURRENT SITUATION -- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMSIN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICALINTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS -- David J Sarquis Ramirez -- CONCLUSION -- WHAT IS A CIVILIZATION?:FROM BRAUDEL TO ELIAS THE VARIOUSDEFINITIONS OF "CIVILIZATION"IN SOCIAL SCIENCES -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING CIVILIZATION AS A DYNAMIC PROCESS BETWEENTHE CITY, EMPIRE, AND RELIGION -- CIVILIZATION" AND POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES:APPEARANCES OF CIVILIZATION IN AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCEREVIEW, WORLD POLITICS, AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS -- CONCEPTUAL FAMILY OF "CIVILIZATION":RELIGION, EMPIRE, AND THE CITY -- 1. Religion and Civilization: A Critical Look at Freud, Braudel,and Huntington -- 2. Empire and Civilization -- 3. The City and Civilization: Etymological Roots, Court Society, and ClassRelations -- 4. Defining Civilization as a Dynamic Process between the City, Empire, andReligion through Epistemic Communities, Higher Education, and the Canon.

5. A Critical Look at the Concept of an "Islamic Civilization" from thePerspective of Epistemic Communities, Higher Education, and the Canon -- THE SOCIOLOGY OF CIVILIZATIONS:IBN KHALDUN AND A MULTI-CIVILIZATIONALWORLD ORDER -- INTRODUCTION -- The First Proposal -- The Second Proposal -- The Main Debate: Civilization or Civilizations? -- From Hegel to Fukuyama: The Idea of a Single Civilization -- From Ibn Khaldun to Huntington: The Idea of Multiple Civilizations -- Ibn Khaldun's Sociology of Civilizations and Macro-Fiqh -- The Discipline of 'Umrān and Its Essential Accidents -- Civilization, the Nature of Power, and Conflict -- The Past and Future of the Problem of Multiplicity of Civilizations -- Inter-civilizational Relations -- CONCLUSION: THE IBN KHALDUN PARADOX ORTHE CIRCULATION OF CIVILIZATIONS -- EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND RACE:RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF SUPERIORITYAND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY IN MODERNEUROPEAN THOUGHT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The History of the Concept of 'Race': Classifications and Taxonomies -- 2. From Variation To 'Speciation' -- 3. Race and Modernity -- 4. From Speciation To Hierarchy: The 'Aryan' Paradigm -- 5. Race and Nationalism -- CONCLUSIONS:The New 'Racial' Order of Civilization and its Others -- ANCIENT GREEK VIEWS ON CIVILIZATIONAND WORLD ORDER: SPEECHES OF ISOCRATES -- Violeta Gerjikova -- PART II INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMYAND REGIONAL ORDERS -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HUMAN CAPITALISM:UNRAVELLING THE JAPANESE CONCEPTIONOF 'ECONOMIC ORDER' -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Major Analytical Perspectives on Post-War Socio-EconomicTransformation in Japan -- 2. Japanese Economy and Industrial Relations in Historical Perspective -- 3. Developmentalism vs. Human Capitalism:Alternative Conceptions of Japanese Economic Order -- EPILOGUE:Global Ascendancy of 'Casino Capitalism'and Prospects for the Japanese Model.

A CIVILIZATIONAL APPROACH TO MULTILATERALPOLITICS: THE EUROPEAN UNIONAND WORLD POLITICS -- INTRODUCTION -- TWO OPPOSING WESTERN POLITICAL DISCOURSES:THE EMERGENCE OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN APPROACHES -- 1. Foreign Policy Orientation of the European Union -- CONCLUSION -- TRANSATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICSAND THE DISTINCTIVENESSOF THE AMERICAN CIVILIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Culture and Civilizations in International Relations -- CONCLUSION: A DUALIST HERITAGE -- GEOPOLITICS, GEOECONOMYAND TRANSFORMATION: THE KOREAN PATHTOWARDS THE GLOBAL ORDER -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CONCEPTUALIZING EAST ASIAN FORMS OF GLOBALINTEGRATION: BEYOND 'STATES VERSUS MARKETS' -- a) The Neoclassical Dictum: Free Markets, Minimal Government -- b)The Neoinstitutionalist Challenge: 'Governed Markets' and 'CompetitiveCollaboration' -- 2. HISTORICAL DYNAMICS UNDERPINNING MODERN KOREA -- 3. CONSOLIDATION OF THE KOREAN DEVELOPMENTAL STATE -- 4. EXTERNAL DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION -- a) Cold War and Geopolitical Pressures -- b) The Facilitating Role of the US -- c) Japan, 'Flying Geese' and Regional Production Networks -- CONCLUSION: STRUCTURAL MATURITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- THEORETICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE ACTORNESSOF THE EU AND THE WTOIN AGLOBALISING WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- ACTORS AND ACTORNESS IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW -- ACTORS AND ACTORNESS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- A BEHAVIOURAL PERSPECTIVE ON EU'S ACTORNESS -- INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TRADEAND THE EU'S GLOBAL VISION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EU AS ECONOMIC POWER AND TRADE ACTOR -- ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN WORLD TRADE -- ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN WORLD AGRICULTURAL TRADEFROM A WTO PERSPECTIVE -- CONCLUSION -- PART IIIGLOBALIZATION, HEGEMONYAND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- SLAVERY, VIOLENCE AND HEGEMONY -- Mark Goodman -- THE SPECTER OF SUBALTERN GLOBALIZATION -- Imtiaz Ahmed -- NARCO-TERRORISM.

MONEY LAUNDERING -- MODERN WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY ANDTHE POWER OF THE NON-STATE -- CONCLUSION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? -- THE 'WAR ON TERROR' THROUGH A FEMINISTLENS: HEGEMONY, THE PROBLEM OF ABSTRACTIONAND THE CASE FOR EMBODIED POLITICS -- HEGEMONY RESTATED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR' -- The 'War on Terror': The Latest Stage of Disembodied Abstraction onInternational Relations -- Moving Beyond the Dangerous Abstractions of the 'War on Terror' -- CONCLUSION: THE DANGERS OF MULTIPLE ABSTRACTIONS -- THE UNIPOLAR WORLD ORDERAND US STRATEGIES -- Birthe Hansen -- THE TWO DIMENSIONS: INTENSITY AND FORM -- THE THREE PHASES -- Phase 1 - Manifestation -- Phase 2 - Consolidation -- Phase 3 - Change -- STRENGTH AND ENGAGEMENT? -- PERSPECTIVES -- GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY:A DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP -- Mesut Özcan -- EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY -- A MORE DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIZATION -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND INTERNATIONALACTION AGAINST TERRORISM -- Charles Townshend -- PART IVCULTURAL PERSPECTIVESON CIVILIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION -- CHALLENGES OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION:POLITICAL ISLAM IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- The Origins of Islam as Political Ideology -- Islam as Political Ideology and its Varieties -- A Typology of Islamic Thinkers and Movements -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- FROM CULTURAL VIOLENCE TO DIALOGUEOF CIVILIZATIONS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATIONOF THE CONCEPTUAL TOOLBOX -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. EMERGENCE OF THE IDEA OF DIALOGUE AMONGCIVILIZATIONS -- 2. FROM DIALOGUE TO ALLIANCE: SAME IDEA NEW CONCEPT -- 3. UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGEOF CULTURAL VIOLENCE22 -- 3. DIALECTIC LEGACY AND THE DIALOGIC POSSIBILITIES -- 5. POSSIBILITIES OF DIALOGUE ASA CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCESS -- 6. DIALOGUE BY DIALOGIC MEANS -- Buber and Dialogue -- 7. HABERMAS' COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY AND THE DISCOURSETHEORY OF DEMOCRACY -- CONCLUSION.

TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE "WORLD ORDER":OUTLINE OF A PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGIOUSPLURALISM AND TOLERANCE -- INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTUAL FLEXIBILITY OR RIGIDITY? -- 1. OPENNESS AND THE EMBODIMENT OF DEEP AMBIGUITY:AN ILLUSTRATION THROUGH LAO TZU'S TAO TE CHING -- 2. THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE ADVANCEMENTOF CONCEPTUAL FLEXIBILITY -- 3. THE CONTRIBUTION OF RECENT STUDIES IN MYTHOLOGY -- 4. THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION -- POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE QUESTFOR WORLD ORDER -- Joseph P Lawrence -- INDEX.