02834nam 22005175 450 99655234730331620231201011428.03-8394-6527-310.1515/9783839465271(CKB)28227791800041(DE-B1597)649727(DE-B1597)9783839465271(EXLCZ)992822779180004120231201h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Social Evolution of World Politics /Stephan Stetter, Iver B. Neumann, Hauke Brunkhorst, Mathias AlbertBielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]©20231 online resource (168 p.)Edition Politik ;1439783837665277 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: ‘Deep history’ for understanding world politics -- 2 The coevolution of society and evolutionary theory through four Axial Ages -- 3 Contemporary social evolution and social evolutionary theories -- 4 Evolutionary trajectories in world politics -- 5 Social evolution and knowing world politics -- ReferencesHow can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the contributors to this volume 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. Four 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.POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / GeneralbisacshGlobalization.International Relations.Political Science.Political System.Political Theory.Politics.Social Evolution.World Society.POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.Albert Mathias, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1113104Brunkhorst Hauke, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autNeumann Iver B., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996552347303316The Social Evolution of World Politics3656333UNISA