Ebook: Islam and international relations: exploring community and the limits of universalism

Islam and politics -- Warming up: the state vs. the umma -- The main event: liberalism vs. islamism vs. poststructuralism -- Structure of the book -- Islam(ism) and international relations -- International relations, islam, and the secular bias -- A framework for studying religion in international relations -- Postcolonial critiques of modernity -- Poststructuralism and Islam: a shared agenda? -- The study of religion in IR -- Unpacking political islam using constructivism -- Problems and limitations -- Sovereignty and political Islam -- Accounting for community -- Value pluralism and the "international" of international relations -- To what extent is an Islamic notion of international relations tenable?