A World Ripe for the Gods: Regime Theory and Religion in International Relations
Journal: KU ScholarWorks (The University of Kansas)
Year: 2012

This thesis adds to the burgeoning literature on the role of religion in International Relations (IR), and adds theoretical depth to the emerging sub-field of International Political Theology (IPT), by examining the subject through the prism of regime theory, which is necessarily augmented by Vendulka Kubálková's linguistic model of constructivism. Since religion does not appear to be a rule-governed issue area in IR, religions are treated as regimes, or, as Stephen Krasner defines them, "sets o