Religion and Contemporary International Relations/Symposium for Religion and Contemporary International Relations (Chinese Edition)

Brief introduction of Religion and Contemporary International Relations written by Xu Yihua and so on: Since the 1970s, the global religion revival and world-wide desecularizationr trends, especially the occurrence of September 11 Terrorist Attack, change peoples views on the religion and international issues in a large extent, specifically the religion returns from the exile of Westphalia to the center of international relations and becomes the resource competed by the various conflict parties on the international stage. The global religion revival, which is changing the layout of the worlds religions from many ways, gives a challenge for the structure of the existing international relations, and therefore, the religious issues become a new area of the study on international relations. On the basis of the relevant studies both at home and abroad, the author of Religion and Contemporary International Relations made a more comprehensive and systematic analysis and evaluation for the level and impacts of religion on the current international relations and a number of important issues therein.