The Social Evolution of World Politics

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6527-7
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 143, 168 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 247 g

Reihe: Edition Politik

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the authors of this book propose a framework for understanding such change in terms of social evolution. They show that processes of social learning and unlearning are key to understanding the long-term historical evolution of complex societies, and propose to approach these with the core concepts of autonomization, hierarchical complexity, and co-evolution. Three case studies illustrate this social evolutionary perspective to the study of world politics, examining the evolution of forms of organizing political authority, of conflicts, of diplomacy, of law as boundary condition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albert, Mathias

Brunkhorst, Hauke

Neumann, Iver B.

Stetter, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Albert, Mathias
Mathias Albert is a professor of political science at the Faculty of Sociology at Universität Bielefeld, and one of the directors of the Institute for World Society Studies. His research is on the history and sociology of world politics, on youth, as well as on the politics and science of the polar regions.