The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, Volume 2

How do we think about international relations? There is no question that society is based upon its cultural foundations, yet this mode of understanding the world is seemingly absent from IR. The second volume of Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, a three-volume project changing the way we think about international relations, traces the key characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time. It shows that myth, religion and ethical philosophies have always informed the way that societies have interacted with outsiders, from tribal relations to the imperial frontiers. Acceptance of this points us towards the future state of international relations. A truly masterful work, The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion, is a must for upper-undergraduates and academics at the cutting edge of international relations theory. The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 15 1. Tribal Foreign Relations and Mythical Ancestry......Page 18 Identity and Memory in Ethnogenetic Myth......Page 19 Pseudo-Speciation and the Cinstitution of the Foreign......Page 32 Mythical Exchanges......Page 45 Ethnogenisis and Foreign Relations in Mesopotamian Mythology......Page 54 Imperial and Nomadic Antecedents of the Semitic Monotheisms......Page 66 Foreign Relations in the Bible and the Koran......Page 83 From Aryan-Dravidian Synthesis to Hindu Nationalism......Page 102 Heroes of the Hellenic World in the Mirror of Western Imperialism......Page 119 Warrior and Fertility Myths from the Scythians to Wagner......Page 135 4. Imperial Cosmologies andthe Nomad Counterpoint......Page 150 Imperial Confucianism and Frontier Buddhism......Page 151 Contending Buddhisms on China’s Frontier......Page 161 Fromtier Origins and Imperial Transformation of Roman Christianity......Page 166 Crusaders and Muslims......Page 176 5. Rival Fundamentalisms on the Imperial Frontier......Page 195 Militant Calvinism and Western Hegemony......Page 196 Zionism and Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel......Page 206 Islam the New Nomad Creed?......Page 221 References......Page 240 Index......Page 253 The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion is the second volume of Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy , a three-volume project which is changing the way we think about international relations. In the first, Deutscher prize-winning volume, Kees van der Pijl introduced the ground-breaking argument that our current international system of nation states is merely a historically specific form of foreign relations, rather than a permanent fixture. Now he traces the key characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time, showing that myth, religion and ethical philosophies have always informed the way that societies have interacted with outsiders. This points us towards the future state of international relations. A truly masterful work, The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion , is a must for upper-undergraduates and academics at the cutting edge of international relations theory. V. 1. Nomads, Empires, States -- V. 2. The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion -- V. 3. Modes Of Foreign Relations And Political Economy. Kees Van Der Pijl. Complete In 3 Volumes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Second volume of Deutscher prize-winning trilogy on the future of IR, tracing the defining characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time.