Description
Book SynopsisSecond volume of Deutscher prize-winning trilogy on the future of IR, tracing the defining characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time.
Trade Review'A brilliant treatise on the 'foreign encounter'. Magisterial in scope, this book reshapes our conception of historical temporalities, civilisational flows and international relations' -- Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Sixth Century Chair in International Relations, University of Aberdeen
'Challenges us to understand the world in its full complexity and contradictory actuality' -- Peter Bratsis
'An exploration of the mythical, religious, cultural and ideological themes through which the historically and geographically distinct communities' modes of foreign relations have been understood, organised and narrated' -- Radhika Desai
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
1. Tribal Foreign Relations and Mythical Ancestry
2. Sedentary-Nomad Encounters in Semitic Myth and Religion
3. Warrior Heroes in the Indo-European Lineage
4. Imperial Cosmologies and the Nomadic Counterpoint
5. Rival Fundamentalisms on the Imperial Frontier
References
Index
