Observing international relations  Niklas Luhmann and world politics /  [Texte imprimé] : 
edited by Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2004 
 - 1 vol. (XIV-254 p.) :  couv. ill. ;  25 cm 
 - The New International Relations Series .
 - The new international relations (Routledge, London) .
<br/><br/> Index 
<br/><br/>Bibliogr. p. [226]-251 
<br/><br/>Introduction / 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415315387 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>International relations 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.101