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Intro -- Contents -- List of Authors -- 1 Introduction: Ideologies in World Politics -- Abstract -- References -- 2 Islam and Ideology in World Politics -- Abstract -- 1 Religion and Ideology in the Muslim World: Context and Taxonomy -- 2 Islam and Politics: Global Reach, Universal Claim -- 3 Confronting Modernity: Recharging the Caliphate and Pan-Islamism -- 4 Ideological Divergence: Conflating and Deconflating Religion and Statehood -- 5 Conclusion: Trajectories for the Twenty-First Century -- References -- 3 Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis -- Abstract -- 1 Understanding a Complex and 'Inhuman' World -- 2 Theoretical Reflections on the Changing Nature of Security and Crises -- 3 Humanitarianism and Migration: Trends and Dilemma -- 4 Humanitarianism and Migration: Between Tradition and Innovation -- 4.1 Humanitarianism and Migration: Traditional Tasks and Approaches -- 4.2 Humanitarianism and Migration: Innovative (and Controversial) Practices -- 5 The Future of Humanitarianism and the Migration Challenges: Towards a Better World? -- References -- 4 Ideology and International Security -- Abstract -- 1 Epistemology and the Study of Ideology in International Security -- 1.1 The Causal Treatment of Ideology -- 1.2 The Constitutive View of Ideology -- 2 Making It Matter: Neoconservatism and International Security -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Environmental Ideologies in Global Politics -- Abstract -- 1 Varieties of Environmentalism -- 1.1 Neoliberal Environmentalism -- 1.2 Interventionist Environmentalism -- 1.3 Biocentric Environmentalism -- 1.4 Green Environmentalism -- 2 The Uneven Influence of Environmental Ideologies -- 2.1 Environmental Regimes and Institutions -- 2.2 Global Environmental Governance -- 2.3 Grassroots Mobilisation: Fringe or Future? -- References -- 6 The Ideology of the Global Commons -- Abstract.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies -- Part I - Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace -- Part II - Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence -- Part III - Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace -- Part I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace -- Chapter 1: Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the Humanum -- Introduction -- On Homer: The Shields of Peace -- The Legal Orthopedia of Peace -- Conclusion: Peace the Vernacular of the Humanum -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human Imagination -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Aesthetic Imagination and Animate Peace -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Animate Peace -- 3. Living with Animals -- 4. Aesthetic Imagination -- 5. Conclusions: Imagining Conviviality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of Peacemaking -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and Savitrı -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence -- Chapter 6: Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False Binary -- Transforming Islamic Liberation Theology into a Liberation Theodicy for a Decentred World -- Against Dualism: From Philosophies of Despair to a Philosophy of Hope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict -- Introduction -- From Aquinas to Kant to Lanza del Vasto -- Jus ad bellum -- The Ultimate Aim of War (Conflict): A More Perfect Peace (Than before the War) -- The Authority of the Prince: The Declaration of War -- A Just Cause -- A Right Intention

This article begins by pointing out the discrepancy between, on the one hand, a certain political discourse which refers to a so-called New World Order in highly moralistic terms and, on the other hand, brute facts which attest to the contrary (resurgence of violent regional conflicts, atomization of global structures). It then examines the possibilities for analysing this discrepancy from a critical perspective centered on ethical norms. This leads the author to review the principal ethical approaches elaborated within the study of international relations since the Second World War. Emphasis is put on a major epistemological cleavage between academic disciplines, perhaps the most important demarcation in ethical theory : the one separating deontological from non-deontological theories. The systematic rejection or marginalization of deontology by the « discipline » of International Relations can be explained in terms of objective cognitive interests which have established, paradigmatically a genuine spirit of corporatism within the discipline. This article endeavors to explain such corporatism with a view to helping start a truly pluridisciplinary debate on ethics in the post-cold-war era

The study attempts to make a theoretically informed analysis of technology assessment (TA) as part of postfordist global governance. It focuses first on the FAST programme of the EC, designed to regulate the relationship between producers of new technologies (industry, states) and civil society. The author shows that this regulation, based on the expertise of the social sciences, is largely asymmetrical in favour of the former and an attempt to engineer social consensus at the supranational level. The focus shifts then downwards to the numerous national and regional TA institutions in Western Europe which are all parts of a FAST dominated transnational network, as well as upwards to various related global TA activities (OECD, Lisbon Group, etc.). These different levels of analysis demonstrate that TA is politically constructed as a polycentric, non-hierarchical web of interrelated regulation mechanisms. As such, it is argued, it steadily permeates and recombines existing political structures and levels in order to meet as quickly as possible precise demands of legitimization and accumulation, and should therefore be called a « fractal » regulation.