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Sherry L. Mueller and Mark Overmann. (2008). Working World: Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 246 pages, $24.95 List, ISBN 978–158901–210–3.

Cover -- The Zen of International Relations -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Within International Relations Itself, a New Culture Rises Up -- Part I Establishing a Debate -- 2 Western (?) Stories of War Origins -- 3 Forget IR Theory -- Part II Attempting to Form the Debate -- 4 Seven Types of Ambiguity in Western International Relations Theory and Painful Steps Towards Right Ethics -- 5 A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR -- 6 Stories of Priam and Job, the Slaughter of Their Families, and Twenty Theses on the Suggestiveness of Good for the Person of IR -- Part III The Inclination of Middle Eastern Civilisation -- 7 Can a Declined Civilisation be Reconstructed? Islamic 'Civilisation' or 'Civilised' Islam? -- 8 An Islamic Perspective on Non-Alignment: Iranian Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice -- Part IV The Zen of International Relations -- 9 East-west Stories of War and Peace: Neorealist Claims in Light of Ancient Chinese Philosophy -- 10 Selling Culture: Ancient Chinese Conceptions of 'the Other' in Legends -- 11 The Zen Master's Story and an Anatomy of International Relations Theory -- Bibliographical Note: Has Chinese IR Progressed? -- Index.