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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821919503321

Titolo

Meaning and international relations / / edited by Peter Mandaville and Andrew Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-51544-8

1-134-51545-6

0-415-75350-3

1-280-07065-X

0-203-16755-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; ; 22

Altri autori (Persone)

MandavillePeter G. <1971->

WilliamsAndrew J. <1951->

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

International relations - Philosophy

International relations - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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