Kees van der Pijl is a Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. His books include The Disciple of Western Supremacy (Pluto, 2014) The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion (Pluto, 2010), the Deutscher prize-winning Nomads, Empires, States (Pluto, 2007).

'A brilliant treatise on the 'foreign encounter'. Magisterial in scope, this book reshapes our conception of historical temporalities, civilisational flows and international relations'

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Tribal Foreign Relations and Mythical Ancestry2. Sedentary-Nomad Encounters in Semitic Myth and Religion3. Warrior Heroes in the Indo-European Lineage4. Imperial Cosmologies and the Nomadic Counterpoint 5. Rival Fundamentalisms on the Imperial FrontierReferencesIndex

Kees van der Pijl is a Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. His books include The Disciple of Western Supremacy (Pluto, 2014) The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion (Pluto, 2010), the Deutscher prize-winning Nomads, Empires, States (Pluto, 2007).

'A brilliant treatise on the 'foreign encounter'. Magisterial in scope, this book reshapes our conception of historical temporalities, civilisational flows and international relations'

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Tribal Foreign Relations and Mythical Ancestry2. Sedentary-Nomad Encounters in Semitic Myth and Religion3. Warrior Heroes in the Indo-European Lineage4. Imperial Cosmologies and the Nomadic Counterpoint 5. Rival Fundamentalisms on the Imperial FrontierReferencesIndex

Kees van der Pijl is a Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. His books include The Disciple of Western Supremacy (Pluto, 2014) The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion (Pluto, 2010), the Deutscher prize-winning Nomads, Empires, States (Pluto, 2007).

'A brilliant treatise on the 'foreign encounter'. Magisterial in scope, this book reshapes our conception of historical temporalities, civilisational flows and international relations'

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Tribal Foreign Relations and Mythical Ancestry2. Sedentary-Nomad Encounters in Semitic Myth and Religion3. Warrior Heroes in the Indo-European Lineage4. Imperial Cosmologies and the Nomadic Counterpoint 5. Rival Fundamentalisms on the Imperial FrontierReferencesIndex