Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

Chapter 1 Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics (Vassilios Paipais).- PART I Metaphysics.- Chapter 2 'Obligations written in the heart': Burke's primacy of association and the renewal of political theology (Adrian Pabst).- Chapter 3 The Political Theology of Thomas Hobbes and the Theory of Interstate Society (William Bain).- Chapter 4 A Matter of Faith: Derrida, Žižek, and The Fourth 'Overcoming of Gnosis' (Agata Bielik-Robson).- Chapter 5 The Cosmology of M¿dhyamaka Buddhism and its World of Deep Relationalism (Shannon Brincat).- PART II Genealogies.- Chapter 6 Between Transcendence and Necessity: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight and the crisis of modern international relations (Nicholas Rengger).- Chapter 7 Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our Times (Mustapha Kamal Pasha).- Chapter 8 The Nation, the Nations and the Third Nation: The political essence of early Christianity (György Geréby).- Chapter 9 On a Stasis of Memory or Disrupting the Postliminium (Ilias Papagiannopoulos).- PART III Political Theologies.- Chapter 10 Total War and Limited Government: the German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Michael Hollerich).- Chapter 11 Love as a Practice of Peace: the political theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and King (Liane Hartnett).- Chapter 12 Reading Kant in the Light of Political Theology (Sean Molloy).- Chapter 13 Religiosity with/out Religion: Hans J. Morgenthau, Disenchantment and International Politics (John-Harmen Valk).

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology. Contributions to this collection highlight the political theological foundations of international theory and world politics, recasting theology and politics as symbiotic discourses with all the risks, promises and open questions this relation may involve. The overarching claim the book makes is that all politics has theology embedded in it, both in the genealogical sense of carrying ineradicable traces of rival theological traditions, and also in the more ontological sense of being enacted by alternative configurations of the theologico-political. The book is unique in bringing together a diverse group of scholars, spanning knowledge areas as varied as IR, political theory, philosophy, theology, and history to investigate the complex interconnections between theology and world politics. It will be of interest to students andscholars of political theory, international relations, intellectual history, and political theology.