Mauro José Caraccioli is Associate Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty in the ASPECT Program at Virginia Tech.Einar Wigen is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo.

• List of FiguresContributorsAcknowledgmentsPreface (Iver B. Neumann)Introduction: Global Politics in a Polyglot World (Mauro J. Caraccioli and Einar Wigen)Section I: Translation (and) TheoryChapter 1: The Interlingual Configurations of International Politics (Einar Wigen)Chapter 2: Translation and Explanation (Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)Chapter 3: The Hidden Politics of Translation: On Interpreters' and Translators' Agency in International Relations (Anatoly Reshetnikov)Section II: Translation (and) HistoryChapter 4: Interlingual Relations in a Persianate International Order (Alireza Shams-Lahijani)Chapter 5: Translation Power: Rethinking the Evolution of the International System with Insights from Sino-Tibetan Relations Surrounding the 1914 Simla Convention (Amanda J. Cheney)Chapter 6: Transversing Civilizational Hierarchies? The Introduction of Latin Alphabet in Turkey (Bahar Rumelili and Senem Aydin Düzgit)Chapter 7: Historias for the Empire: Indigenous Translators and the Re-Productions of Linguistic Conquest (Mauro J. Caraccioli)Chapter 8: Kidnap Yourself a Translator: The Social Embedding of Translation in First Encounters (Julia Costa Lopez)Section III: Translation (and) Order Chapter 9: Morgenthau in Translation: On Languages, Academic Environments, and the Making of International Relations in the United States and Germany (Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler)Chapter 10: Constructing Incommensurables: Hebrew’s Machiavellian Moment (Daniel J. Levine)Chapter 11: Interlingual Politics of Linguistic Choice (Jelena Subotic)Chapter 12: “The Most Important People Here Are Not Us—It’s Those Translators”: The Hidden Labour of Afghan and Iraqi Local Interpreters (Sara de Jong)Chapter 13: Interlingual Relations and the Limits of Hegemony: US Public Diplomacy in the Arab World, 2002-2003 (Jane Darby Menton)Conclusion (Einar Wigen and Mauro José Caraccioli)Index

“This extraordinarily rich book does IR the huge favor of revealing what has long remained hidden in plain sight: the world is polyglot—with attendant consequences for global politics. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Caraccioli, Wigen and their contributors for helping us catch up with reality.”

Mauro José Caraccioli is Associate Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty in the ASPECT Program at Virginia Tech.Einar Wigen is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo.

• List of FiguresContributorsAcknowledgmentsPreface (Iver B. Neumann)Introduction: Global Politics in a Polyglot World (Mauro J. Caraccioli and Einar Wigen)Section I: Translation (and) TheoryChapter 1: The Interlingual Configurations of International Politics (Einar Wigen)Chapter 2: Translation and Explanation (Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)Chapter 3: The Hidden Politics of Translation: On Interpreters' and Translators' Agency in International Relations (Anatoly Reshetnikov)Section II: Translation (and) HistoryChapter 4: Interlingual Relations in a Persianate International Order (Alireza Shams-Lahijani)Chapter 5: Translation Power: Rethinking the Evolution of the International System with Insights from Sino-Tibetan Relations Surrounding the 1914 Simla Convention (Amanda J. Cheney)Chapter 6: Transversing Civilizational Hierarchies? The Introduction of Latin Alphabet in Turkey (Bahar Rumelili and Senem Aydin Düzgit)Chapter 7: Historias for the Empire: Indigenous Translators and the Re-Productions of Linguistic Conquest (Mauro J. Caraccioli)Chapter 8: Kidnap Yourself a Translator: The Social Embedding of Translation in First Encounters (Julia Costa Lopez)Section III: Translation (and) Order Chapter 9: Morgenthau in Translation: On Languages, Academic Environments, and the Making of International Relations in the United States and Germany (Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler)Chapter 10: Constructing Incommensurables: Hebrew’s Machiavellian Moment (Daniel J. Levine)Chapter 11: Interlingual Politics of Linguistic Choice (Jelena Subotic)Chapter 12: “The Most Important People Here Are Not Us—It’s Those Translators”: The Hidden Labour of Afghan and Iraqi Local Interpreters (Sara de Jong)Chapter 13: Interlingual Relations and the Limits of Hegemony: US Public Diplomacy in the Arab World, 2002-2003 (Jane Darby Menton)Conclusion (Einar Wigen and Mauro José Caraccioli)Index

“This extraordinarily rich book does IR the huge favor of revealing what has long remained hidden in plain sight: the world is polyglot—with attendant consequences for global politics. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Caraccioli, Wigen and their contributors for helping us catch up with reality.”

Mauro José Caraccioli is Associate Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty in the ASPECT Program at Virginia Tech.Einar Wigen is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo.

• List of FiguresContributorsAcknowledgmentsPreface (Iver B. Neumann)Introduction: Global Politics in a Polyglot World (Mauro J. Caraccioli and Einar Wigen)Section I: Translation (and) TheoryChapter 1: The Interlingual Configurations of International Politics (Einar Wigen)Chapter 2: Translation and Explanation (Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)Chapter 3: The Hidden Politics of Translation: On Interpreters' and Translators' Agency in International Relations (Anatoly Reshetnikov)Section II: Translation (and) HistoryChapter 4: Interlingual Relations in a Persianate International Order (Alireza Shams-Lahijani)Chapter 5: Translation Power: Rethinking the Evolution of the International System with Insights from Sino-Tibetan Relations Surrounding the 1914 Simla Convention (Amanda J. Cheney)Chapter 6: Transversing Civilizational Hierarchies? The Introduction of Latin Alphabet in Turkey (Bahar Rumelili and Senem Aydin Düzgit)Chapter 7: Historias for the Empire: Indigenous Translators and the Re-Productions of Linguistic Conquest (Mauro J. Caraccioli)Chapter 8: Kidnap Yourself a Translator: The Social Embedding of Translation in First Encounters (Julia Costa Lopez)Section III: Translation (and) Order Chapter 9: Morgenthau in Translation: On Languages, Academic Environments, and the Making of International Relations in the United States and Germany (Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler)Chapter 10: Constructing Incommensurables: Hebrew’s Machiavellian Moment (Daniel J. Levine)Chapter 11: Interlingual Politics of Linguistic Choice (Jelena Subotic)Chapter 12: “The Most Important People Here Are Not Us—It’s Those Translators”: The Hidden Labour of Afghan and Iraqi Local Interpreters (Sara de Jong)Chapter 13: Interlingual Relations and the Limits of Hegemony: US Public Diplomacy in the Arab World, 2002-2003 (Jane Darby Menton)Conclusion (Einar Wigen and Mauro José Caraccioli)Index

“This extraordinarily rich book does IR the huge favor of revealing what has long remained hidden in plain sight: the world is polyglot—with attendant consequences for global politics. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Caraccioli, Wigen and their contributors for helping us catch up with reality.”