The Social Evolution of World Politics
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Beschreibung
Understanding world politics in terms of social evolution.
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.
Autor*in
Mathias Albert
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.
Themen in »The Social Evolution of World Politics«
World Politics World Politics International Relations International Relations Social Evolution Social Evolution World Society World Society Politics Politics Globalization Globalization Political Theory Political Theory Political System