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"In this book, Mathias Albert develops an ambitious theoretical framework that describes world politics as a specific social system set within the wider political system of world society. Albert's analysis of the historical evolution and contemporary form of world politics takes the theory...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge studies in international relations ;
141 |
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| Summary: |
"In this book, Mathias Albert develops an ambitious theoretical framework that describes world politics as a specific social system set within the wider political system of world society. Albert's analysis of the historical evolution and contemporary form of world politics takes the theory of social differentiation as its starting point. World politics is a specific, relatively recent form of politics and Albert shows how the development of a distinct system of world politics first began during the long nineteenth century. The book goes on to identify the different forms of social differenti |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107146532 (hardback) : 1107146534 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | JZ1305 |
| CLC: | D81-02 |
| Call Number: | D81-02/A333 |
| Contents: | Part I. World Society Theory -- The 'world' and 'society' in 'world society' -- World society and social differentiation: segmentation, stratification and functional differentiation -- Part II. Emerging World Politics -- The system of world politics -- Forms of world politics -- Part III. Reflections and Roads Ahead -- Reflections on theorising world politics -- Limitations, loose threads, further research -- Concluding remarks: scrambles amongst world politics. |