The Social Evolution of World Politics.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albert, Mathias
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Transcript Verlag 2023.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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