The book Civilization in International Politics (With Emphasis on the Question of Order in the Islamic World), authored by Rasoul Norouzi‑Firouz, was published in September 2025 by the Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy. This Persian work represents nearly a decade of strategic research in civilizational studies and international relations, constituting the theoretical component of a major research project on the formulation of order in the Islamic world.
The book is structured into six chapters and a concluding section:
- Chapter I: The incorporation of civilization into the discipline of international politics and its connection with the return of religion.
- Chapter II: Civilization as an analytical approach, distinguishing between discourse‑oriented and situation‑oriented theories, and clarifying its semantic constructs.
- Chapter III: Application of civilizational readings in the analysis of international politics.
- Chapter IV: The concept of the “civilizational state” and its agency in the international system.
- Chapter V: Analytical examination of the question of order in the Islamic world through civilizational modeling.
- Chapter VI: Civilizational institutions and the potential for expanding convergence in the Islamic world.
The concluding section synthesizes civilizational theorizing in international politics and presents its prospective trajectories.
