Evolution and International Organization: Toward a New Level of Sociopolitical Integration

ISBN-13: 9789401183802 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 120 str.

Volker Rittberger

Opis

phase two spanned the time from the late 1930's to about 1950 (Sohn's period III and Yalem's periods II and III). The literature produced during these years revealed an ambivalent reaction toward the apparent inability of international organizations, particularly the League of Nations, to control violence or contribute to the solution of conflicts among major powers. The advocates of a world state saw vindicated their position that an even stronger tmiversal supranational authority was required to assure the repression or deterrence of international aggression. However, the 'realist' position, laying claim to greater scientific validity, argued 'the inlportance of political and ideo logical conflicts as barriers to international cooperation' (Yalem, 1966: 2). The excellent analysis by Ronald Rogowski (1968) shows how the twin positions of 'idealism' and 'realism' proceed from an identical paradigm of world politics: a nation-state system with little or no integrative superstructure. They differ, however, in their epistemological outlook. The realists display a positivistic standpoint: taking the inter national system and its premise, power politics, as unalterable givens, they inquire into the feasibility of international organization under these circumstances. The idea lists adopt what one might call a critical approach toward social analysis: they do not deny the positive validity of the realists' fmdings, but they reject the notion that power politics is an mlalterable impediment."

Spis treści

I: Introduction: Problems of Theory-Building in the Study of International Organization.- 1.1 Development of Research and Its Inadequacies.- 1.2 The Quest for New Directions in Theory Building.- 2: Sociocultural Evolution and Sociopolitical Organization.- 2.1 Research on the Changing Scale of Sociopolitical Organization.- 2.2 Sociocultural Evolution — General and Specific Aspects.- 2.3 Evolution of Sociopolitical Organization.- 2.4 Analysis of the Evolutionary Process.- 3: The International Organization Level of Integration and Its Relationship to the Nation State.- 3.1 Structural Means of Integration at the International Organization Level.- 3.2 Interrelations Among Structural Dimensions of International Organization-Building and Patterns of Growth.- 3.3 International Organization and the Nation-State System.- 4: Industrial Civilization and the Causes of International Organization-Building.- 4.1 Theoretical Analysis.- 4.2 Empirical Domain and the Operationalization of Variables.- 4.3 Data Analysis.- 5: International Organization-Building and Integration Within the Global Context.- 5.1 The Dependent Variable: International Integration.- 5.2 Three Theories of International Integration.- 5.3 Data Analysis.- 6: Summary and Conclusions.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Volker Rittberger ( ) lehrte Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Tübingen.