The Social Evolution of World Politics / Stephan Stetter, Iver B. Neumann, Hauke Brunkhorst, Mathias Albert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albert, Mathias, Author.

Brunkhorst, Hauke, Author.

Neumann, Iver B., Author.

Series:

Edition Politik Series

Edition Politik ; 143

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How 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.

Contents:

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

References

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

9783839465271

3839465273

OCLC:

1402835154