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- Title
Weltgesellschaft und Kommunikation: zur Systemtheorie internationaler Beziehungen.
- Authors
Albert, Mathias; Mahlert, Bettina
- Abstract
This contribution seeks to provide a sociologically inspired contribution to the debate on social constructivism in International Relations (IR) in a broader sense by using an approach based on systems and world society theory to inquire how differing basic assumptions about the constitution of the social translate into differing views of the international. First, the article introduces how systems theory approaches the social and the concept of world society via communication theory, noting convergences and divergences with constructivist approaches in IR. It argues that a world society contextualization requires supplementing views of the international as a form of social structure with a semantic view of the international within the political system, and on this basis it critiques methodological internationalism in IR. The contribution concludes with thoughts on conceptual modifications to systems theory implied by this critique.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0946-7165-2017-1-10