Civilizing World Politics

Mathias Albert is currently working on a Habilitation Fellowship of the German Research Community, based in Frankfurt am Main. Lothar Brock is chair for International Relations at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, and is a research director at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Klaus Dieter Wolf is professor of international relations at the Institute of Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Chapter 1 Introduction: World Society Chapter 2 Debordering the World of States: New Spaces in International Relations Chapter 3 Collective Identities in World Society Chapter 4 "Community" in the Global Network: A Methodological Exploration Chapter 5 The "English School": International Theory and International Society Chapter 6 States Are Not "Like Units": Types of State and Forms of Anarchy in the Present International System Chapter 7 The New Raison D'Etat: Interanational Cooperation against Societies? Chapter 8 Time to Change: States as Problems or Problem-Solvers in World Society? Chapter 9 Multi-Level Governance: On the State and Democracy in Europe Chapter 10 Democratization without Representation Chapter 11 Neo-Medievalism, Local Actors, and Foreign Policy: An Agenda for Research Chapter 12 The Better Half of World Society