Imperial monologue or civilizational dialogue? / Michalis S. Michael and Fabio Petito -- Justice and cross-cultural dialogue : from theory to practice / Fred R. Dallmayr -- Dialogue of civilizations as an alternative model for world order / Fabio Petito -- Dialogue among and within faiths : weaving a culture of peace / Toh Swee-Hin (S.H. Toh) -- Civilizationism and the political debate on globalization / Raffaele Marchetti -- Anti-cosmopolitanism, the cosmopolitan harm principle and global dialogue / Richard Shapcott -- Finding appropriate forms of dialogue for engaging with the politics of security / Phillip Darby -- Monologue of empire versus global dialogue of cultures : the branding of "American values" / Manfred B. Steger -- Terror, counterterror and self destruction : living with regimes of narcissism and despair / Ashis Nandy -- Quo vadis, the dialogue of civilizations? September 11 and Muslim-West relations / Chandra Muzaffar -- Openness and the dialogue of civilizations : a Chinese example / Zhang Longxi -- From tension to dialogue? The Mediterranean between European civilization and the Muslim world / Armando Salvatore -- History, memory, and the dialogue of civilizations : the case of northeast Asia / Michael T. Seigel.