摘要：In one of those cruel, yet revealing, moments of historical fate, the Government of Iran sponsored a meeting in 1998 of the UN General Assembly with the aim of countering the Huntington “clash of civilizations” thesis. 2001 was to be designated the year of a “dialogue of civilizations”. In one of those strange, yet telling, silences in responses to the post-9/11 “war on terror”, the dialogue amongst critical scholars in International Relations (IR) has predominantly centered upon the tensions within one “civilization”, the West, especially with regards to the ambivalent relationship between liberalism, security and freedom in Europe and the USA. Post-9/11 debates in IR over the form and content of ethics in world politics lack any sustained consideration of non-Western frameworks that deal with this ethical challenge.
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