Global Orders and Civilizations: Perspectives from History, Philosophy and International Relations
Intro -- 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.