
The Social Evolution of World Politics
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1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2023
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Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-3-8376-6527-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Klappenbroschur
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Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
247 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-6527-7 (9783837665277)
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Mathias Albert | Hauke Brunkhorst | Iver B. Neumann
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Mathias Albert, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland
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.
ISNI: 0000 0001 1456 1528
Hauke Brunkhorst, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutschland
Stephan Stetter, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Deutschland