Peter Mandaville is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University, Washington D.C. He was previously a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Recent publications include Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma and The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory from East West, a co-edited volume.Andrew Williams is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Recent publications include Failed Imagination? New World Orders of the Twentieth Century. He is currently writing a book entitled The Victors and the Vanquished: Liberal Dilemmas and the Ending of Wars.

• 1. Andrew J. Williams Introduction2. Andrew J. Williams Meaning and International Relations: Some Thoughts3. Christopher Coker Surfing the Zeitgeist4. Zaki Laidi The Delocalisation of Meaning5. Gerard Delanty Meaning and Social Transformations: Ideology in a Post-Ideological Age6. Stefan Elbe Eurosomnia: Europe's 'Spiritual Vitality' and the Debate on the European Idea7. Annick Wibben Whose Meaning(s)?!: A Feminist Perspective on the Crisis of Meaning in International Relations8. Tarja Värynen The Search for Meaning in Global Conjunctions: From Ethnographic Truth to Ethnopolitical Agency9. Peter Mandaville When Meaning Travels: Muslim Translocality and the Politics of 'Authenticity'10. Andrea Den Boer Messianic Moments and the Religious (Re)turn in International Relations11. Stephen Chan Reliving the Boxer Uprising, or the Restricted Meaning of Civilisation12. Peter Mandaville On the Danger of Premature Conclusion(s)