Observing international relations : Niklas Luhmann and world politics /
Observing International Relations draws upon the modern systems theory of society, as developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide new perspectives on central aspects of contemporary world society.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004
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| Series: | New international relations.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mathias Albert
- On the modern systems theory of society and IR. Contacts and disjunctures between different kinds of theorizing / Mathias Albert
- Politics, modern systems theory and the critical purpose of international relations theory / Thomas Diez
- "Corpus mysticum": Niklas Luhmann's evocation of world society /Stefan Rossbach
- The "English school" and world society / Chris Brown
- Sociological institutionalism and the empirical study of world society / George M. Thomas
- World society from the bottom up / Lothar Brock
- World society, systems theory and the classical sociology of modernity / Dietrich Jung
- Systems and sovereignty
- a systems theoretical look at the transformation of sovereignty / Anders Esmark
- "World opinion" and the turn to post-sovereign international governance / Hans-Martin Jaeger
- Society's war: the evolution of a self-referential military system / Gorm Harste
- Organizations in/and world society: a theoretical prolegomenon / Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier
- Governance in a world society: the perspective of systems theory / Dieter Kerwer
- Constructivism and international relations: an analysis of Luhmann's conceptualization of power / Stefano Guzzini
- Concluding remarks / Mathias Albert.
