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Social Emergence in International Relations

Social Emergence in International Relations
Author: Maren Wagner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319335510

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This book presents a conceptualization of social emergence in international relations as a novel angle to analyse institutional dynamics in East Asia, introducing the concept of emergence from a critical realist perspective. The author examines East Asia’s characteristic mesh work of regional institutions that affect integrative processes and regional policies, exploring how such institutions emerge and acquire their own nature and why this pattern persists over time, an unresolved and contested subject in the field of International Relations. This book suggests that regional institutions are emergent entities of the international system that arise as forms of self-organization by states to achieve certain emergent properties and powers. The author’s approach sheds light on the particular emergent properties and powers of regional institutions and identifies discourse as a key mechanism of social emergence. Besides engaging in relevant questions of the philosophy of science and its methodological implications for studying social emergence in world politics, the book also analyses the concrete case of two East Asian regional institutions: ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asia Summit. This book will engage scholars and postgraduate students of Asian Studies and International Relations.


Social Theory of International Politics

Social Theory of International Politics
Author: Alexander Wendt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999-10-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107268435

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Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He builds a cultural theory of international politics, which takes whether states view each other as enemies, rivals or friends as a fundamental determinant. Wendt characterises these roles as 'cultures of anarchy', described as Hobbesian, Lockean and Kantian respectively. These cultures are shared ideas which help shape state interests and capabilities, and generate tendencies in the international system. The book describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.


The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s

The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s
Author: Daniel Gorman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139536680

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Chronicling the emergence of an international society in the 1920s, Daniel Gorman describes how the shock of the First World War gave rise to a broad array of overlapping initiatives in international cooperation. Though national rivalries continued to plague world politics, ordinary citizens and state officials found common causes in politics, religion, culture and sport with peers beyond their borders. The League of Nations, the turn to a less centralized British Empire, the beginning of an international ecumenical movement, international sporting events and audacious plans for the abolition of war all signaled internationalism's growth. State actors played an important role in these developments and were aided by international voluntary organizations, church groups and international networks of academics, athletes, women, pacifists and humanitarian activists. These international networks became the forerunners of international NGOs and global governance.


Bringing Sociology to International Relations

Bringing Sociology to International Relations
Author: Mathias Albert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107435013

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Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically differentiated by means of segmentation, or stratified social systems such as class. Drawing on the latest developments on differentiation theory in international relations and sociology, this book brings together contributions from leading IR scholars and sociological theorists to offer a unique interdisciplinary synthesis in which contemporary world politics is discussed as a differentiated social realm. Bringing Sociology to International Relations is an illuminating and innovative new resource for scholars and students which strives to respond to a significant question across all its chapters: what happens when this well-established sociological theoretical framework is transposed from the domestic level, for which it was originally designed, to the larger and more complex subject of international relations?


Scientific Realism and International Relations

Scientific Realism and International Relations
Author: J. Joseph
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-07-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230281982

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Critical and scientific realism have emerged as important perspectives on international relations in recent years. The attraction of these approaches lies in the claim that they can transcend the positivism vs postpositivism divide. This book demonstrates the vitality of this approach and the difference that 'realism' makes.


Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties
Author: Iver B. Neumann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0472054074

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An engaging and sophisticated new IR text that will inspire a new generation of scholars and practitioners


Social Emergence

Social Emergence
Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005-10-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521844642

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This book argues that societies are complex dynamical systems that can be understood through the concept of emergence.


Communitarian International Relations

Communitarian International Relations
Author: Emanuel Adler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415335911

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Emanuel Adler is one of the leading IR theorists of his generation. This volume brings together a collection of his articles, including four new and previously unpublished chapters.


Communitarian International Relations

Communitarian International Relations
Author: Emanuel Adler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2004-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134307829

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In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three previously unpublished articles - points IR constructivism in a novel direction, characterized as 'communitarian'. Adler's synthesis does not herald the end of the nation-state; nor does it suggest that agency is unimportant in international life. Rather, it argues that what mediates between individual and state agency and social structures are communities of practice, which are the wellspring and repositories of collective meanings and social practices. The concept of communities of practice casts new light on epistemic communities and security communities, helping to explain why certain ideas congeal into human practices and others do not, and which social mechanisms can facilitate the emergence of normatively better communities.


Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations

Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations
Author: Yongjin Zhang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317433106

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This edited volume offers arguably the first systemic and critical assessment of the debates about and contestations to the construction of a putative Chinese School of IR as sociological realities in the context of China’s rapid rise to a global power status. Contributors to this volume scrutinize a particular approach to worlding beyond the West as a conscious effort to produce alternative knowledge in an increasingly globalized discipline of IR. Collectively, they grapple with the pitfalls and implications of such intellectual creativity drawing upon local traditions and concerns, knowledge claims, and indigenous sources for the global production of knowledge of IR. They also consider critically how such assertions of Chinese voices and articulation of their ambition for theoretical innovation from the disciplinary margins contribute to the emergence of a Global IR as a truly inclusive discipline that recognizes its multiple and diverse foundations. Reflecting the varied perspectives of both the active participants in the Chinese School of IR debates within China and the observers and critics outside China, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of IR theory, Non-Western IR and Chinese Studies.