| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) |
| Series |
The new international relations |
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New international relations.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Luhmann, Niklas 1927-1998 gnd |
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Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998. ram |
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Luhmann, Niklas. swd |
| Subject |
International relations -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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International relations -- Social aspects
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Weltpolitik
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Weltgesellschaft
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Systemtheorie
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Internationale Politik
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Relations internationales -- Sociologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Albert, Mathias
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Hilkermeier, Lena, 1971-
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| ISBN |
0203563360 |
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9780203563366 |
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9780415315388 |
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0415315387 |
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9781134376490 |
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1134376499 |
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