Observing international relations : Niklas Luhmann and world politics / / edited by Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier.

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Superior document:The new international relations
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:New international relations.
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Physical Description:xiv, 254 p.
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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.