Civilizing World Politics offers an innovative approach to the changing contexts of global politics, moving beyond the ever more fuzzy debate on globalization to a concept of world society that transcends the nation state and embraces communities including nongovernmental organizations. It brings together research from various fields of political science, sociology, and social theory in new ways, successfully introducing U.S. students of international affairs to contemporary continental research in a way that enlightens as it civilizes.
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All of the chapters contain good work and a book as a whole is an admirable statement of a continuing and extremely interesting research project. A well-written book, dealing with fascinating questions in an intelligent and thoughtful manner. Roll on volume 2! * International Affairs *
Preface vii Introduction: World Society 1(18) World Society Research Group Debordering the World of States: New Spaces in International Relations 19(26) Mathias Albert Lothar Brock Collective Identities in World Society 45(24) Christoph Weller `Community in the Global Network: A Methodological Exploration 69(22) Emanuel Richter The `English School: International Theory and International Society 91(12) Chris Brown States Are Not `Like Units: Types of State and Forms of Anarchy in the Present International System 103(16) Georg Sorensen The New Raison DEtat: International Cooperation Against Societies? 119(14) Klaus Dieter Wolf Time to Change: States as Problems or Problem-Solvers in World Society? 133(16) Hilmar Schmidt Multilevel Governance: On the State and Democracy in Europe 149(20) Michael Zurn Democratization without Representation 169(10) Hilmar Schmidt Ingo Take Neo-Medievalism, Local Actors, and Foreign Policy: An Agenda for Research 179(20) Jurgen Neyer The Better Half of World Society 199(16) Ingo Take Notes 215(22) References 237(32) Index 269(6) About the Contributors 275
Mathias Albert is currently working on a Habilitation Fellowship of the German Research Community, based in Frankfurt am Main. Lothar Brock is chair for International Relations at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, and is a research director at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Klaus Dieter Wolf is professor of international relations at the Institute of Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology.
