Learning in Modern International Society: On the Cognitive Problem Solving Abilities of Political Actors

✍ Scribed by Claudia Hofmann (auth.)

• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 157
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Claudia Hofmann engages in a theoretical modelling of international learning processes and the substantiation of this model through three cases from international politics. She answers two questions: How may international actors learn as a collective? And how may the lessons learned influence actor behaviour and problem solving processes? As a foundation for answering these questions she examines the nature of actor behaviour within a social international system and integrates the diffusion of norms and values among macro-level actors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Introduction: Learning in Modern International Society....Pages 11-16
Constructing International Politics....Pages 17-36
Cases of International Learning....Pages 37-41
The World Bank and Global Poverty Alleviation....Pages 43-72
Global Governance and the International Criminal Court....Pages 73-100
Global Civil Society and the Prevention of Armed Conflict....Pages 101-131
Findings: Changing and Adapting International Norms and Values....Pages 133-149
Back Matter....Pages 151-162

✦ Subjects

Political Science