Contribution to Book
The Religious Challenge To International Relations Theory
RELIGION, IDENTITY, AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE : IDEAS, EVIDENCE AND PRACTICE
(2011)
Abstract
In the wake of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the War on Terror, and ethno-religious terrorism around the globe, religion has been pushed to the forefront of the world stage. Long before concern and hysteria zeroed in on Islam as a principal threat to the United States, it was apparent that religion, far from having disappeared, remained a powerful global force.¹ As Kiernan documents in his history of genocide, religion served as a potent catalyst for the mass slaughter of millions throughout the ages. Writing about the waning decades of the twentieth century and the first years of...
Keywords
- Political Science,
- International Relations,
- General,
- Comparative Politics,
- Religion
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Editor
Patrick James
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN
9781442640665
Citation Information
John F. Stack, Jr., The Religious Challenge To International Relations Theory, in RELIGION, IDENTITY, AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE : IDEAS, EVIDENCE AND PRACTICE, (Patrick James, ed., University of Toronto Press, 2011).