Handbook on Religion and International Relations

Edited by Jeffrey Haynes, Emeritus Professor of Politics, London Metropolitan University, UK

Contents:

Introduction: Religion and international relations in the twenty-first century 1
Jeffrey Haynes

PART I CORE ISSUES AND TOPICS
1 Religion in international relations: Theory and practice 5
Jeffrey Haynes
2 The rise and fall of secularism in international relations 24
Daniel Philpott
3 Religion and foreign policy 38
John A. Rees
4 Religion and transnational relations: Bridges, barriers and breakthroughs 52
Jonathan D. James
5 A feminist perspective on religion in international relations 68
Anne Jenichen
6 Political Islam and international relations theory 83
Jocelyne Cesari
7 Religion and international security: From confessionalization to securitization 100
Delphine Allès
8 International religious terrorism 115
Gus Martin

PART II DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES
9 The clash of civilizations, then and now 129
Jonathan Fox
10 Religion and the international politics of climate change 143
Katharina Glaab
11 Religion and international migration 156
Ayhan Kaya
12 Religion and international armed conflict: Why and how religion
precipitates and intensifies it 171
Davis Brown
13 Engaging religion through diplomacy: The case of the United States 187
Peter Mandaville
14 Religion and international development 197
Katherine Marshall
15 The international promotion of freedom of religion or belief: Key
debates and divides 215
Marie Juul Petersen
16 Religiously affiliated organizations 231
Karsten Lehmann

PART III CASE STUDIES
17 Religion and the United Nations 246
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
18 Religion in the European Union 259
Lucian N. Leustean and Jeffrey Haynes
19 Struggling with jihad over Jerusalem: The Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation’s approach to war and peace 275
Turan Kayaoglu
20 International relations and the pope 289
Mariano P. Barbato
21 Religion and America’s international relations 302
Lee Marsden
22 Religion and Iran’s international relations 317
Nikolay Kozhanov
23 Religion and Turkey’s international relations 331
İştar Gözaydın
24 Religion and India’s international relations 348
Catarina Kinnvall
25 Religious diplomacy and US–Israeli relations 363
Daniel G. Hummel

Index 375