Описание:The subject of social differentiation in international relations originated in a discussion starting in 2005. This discussion led to a debate about the interplay between different forms of differentiation. Differentiation theory provides a useful way of focusing the thoughts of contributors from different backgrounds in both theoretical and empirical work in IR and provides a promising basis for substantive discussions and exchanges between sociological and IR approaches.
1. Differentiation theory and international relations.
2. Differentiation: type and dimension approaches.
3. Stratificatory differentiation as a constructive principle of the international system.
4. Some quanta of solace: world politics in the era of functional differentiation.
5. Functional differentiation and the oughts and musts of international law.
6. International institutions in a functionally differentiated world society.
7. Functional differentiation, globalization and the new transnational neopluralism.
8. Differentiation theory and world politics.