Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Preface xii
• Series Editor's Preface xiii
• Acknowledgements xv
• 1 - Introduction 1
• Part I 11
• 2 - On the Modern Systems Theory of Society and Ir 13
• 3 - Politics, Modern Systems Theory and the Critical Purpose of International Relations Theory 30
• 4 - Corpus Mysticum 44
• Part II 57
• 5 - The “english School” and World Society 59
• 6 - Sociological Institutionalism and the Empirical Study of World Society 72
• 7 - World Society from the Bottom Up 86
• 8 - World Society, Systems Theory and the Classical Sociology of Modernity 103
• Part III 119
• 9 - Systems and Sovereignty 121
• 10 - World Opinion and the Turn to Post-Sovereign International Governance 142
• 10 - World Opinion and the Turn to Post-Sovereign International Governance 142
• 11 - Society's War 157
• 12 - Organizations In/And World Society 177
• 13 - Governance in a World Society 196
• 14 - Constructivism and International Relations 208
• 15 - Concluding Remarks 223
• Bibliography 226
• Index 252

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