| ID | 070781 |
| Title Proper | When geopolitics and religion fuse |
| Other Title Information | a historical perspective |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dijkink, Gertjan |
| Publication | 2006. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article provides a historic overview of the role of religion in international relations and discusses what the new pervasiveness of religion means from the perspective of critical geopolitics. Religion and geopolitics seem to have been caught in a zero-sum relationship. Religion helped to legitimate the world of states but receded when that world order developed its own logic (the Westphalian system). Where the (geopolitical) logic of the state system or security appears to fail, religion emerges as a source for the self-image of groups or the discourse on global relations. Religious visions in Christianity and Islam as holy land, holy war or millennialism (extensively discussed in this article) have a clear geopolitical character. They fit easily in the study of codes, script and narratives as practised in critical geopolitics. However in drawing general conclusions one should account for the completely different experiential world in which religiosity takes priority and for the independent causes of territorial conflict. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 11, No. 2; 2006: p192-208 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 11 No 2 |
| Key Words | Religion ; geopolitics ; International Relations |