LEADER 03798oam 2200637I 450 001 9910822000803321 005 20191030193357.0 010 $a1-138-87444-2 010 $a1-134-37650-2 010 $a1-280-07564-3 010 $a0-203-56336-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203563366 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252305 035 $a(EBL)200379 035 $a(OCoLC)437060428 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000304712 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244040 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304712 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10279355 035 $a(PQKB)10971984 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200379 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200379 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10098762 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7564 035 $a(OCoLC)56360051 035 $a(PPN)198455143 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252305 100 $a20180331d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aObserving international relations $eNiklas Luhmann and world politics /$fedited by Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aThe new international relations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-203-34837-0 311 $a0-415-31538-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [226]-251) and index. 327 $aIntroduction / 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. 330 $aObserving International Relations draws upon the modern systems theory of society, developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide new perspectives on central aspects of contemporary world society and to generate theoretically informed insights on the possibilities and limits of regulation in global governance. The authors develop a Luhmannian theory of world society by contrasting it with competing notions of international society, critically discussing the use of modern systems theory in international relations theory and assessing its treatment of central concepts within internatio 410 0$aNew international relations. 606 $aInternational relations$xSocial aspects 615 0$aInternational relations$xSocial aspects. 676 $a327.1/01 701 $aAlbert$b Mathias$01113104 701 $aHilkermeier$b Lena$f1971-$01715447 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822000803321 996 $aObserving international relations$94110101 997 $aUNINA