Civilization in a historical and global perspective / Bruce Mazlish -- Civilizational forms / Marcel Mauss, Diane Barthel-Bouchier -- Civilizational analysis / Edward A. Tiryakian -- The civilizational dimension of modernity / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Note on the concept of an axial turning in human history / Donald N. Levine -- Global civilization and local cultures / Wolf Schäfer -- Civilization and its sources / Arpad Szakolczai -- Civilizational patterns and civilizing processes / Johann P. Arnason -- Rationalization, transformations of consciousness and intercivilizational encounters / Donald A. Nielsen
Civilizations as zones of prestige and social contact / Randall Collins -- Chinese encounters with other civilizations / Cho-Yun Hsu -- Perso-Indian statecraft, Greek political science and the Muslim idea of government / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- The comparison of civilizations / T.N. Madan -- Confessions of a Eurocentric / John A. Hall -- From indigenous civilization to indigenous modernities / John Rundell -- A clash of civilizations or of paradigms? / Daniel Chirot -- The clash of civilizations / Gregory Melleuish -- For the last time / Hamid Dabashi.