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Watching diplomacy attracts upon the trendy platforms concept of society, constructed via Niklas Luhmann, to supply new views on primary features of latest global society and to generate theoretically expert insights at the percentages and bounds of legislation in worldwide governance. The authors strengthen a Luhmannian conception of global society via contrasting it with competing notions of foreign society, significantly discussing using sleek structures thought in diplomacy concept and assessing its therapy of significant strategies inside diplomacy, comparable to strength, sovereignty, governance and battle.

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Nevertheless, seeing IR through systems theoretical lenses must not be understood as “applying” a systems theoretical approach to international relations. IR theory and a theory of society do not operate on a level playing field. In a sense which will be elaborated in more detail below, this also implies that MST does not provide a “superior” view on international relations (in fact it eschews the entire notion of scientific “progress” implied in such a notion), but merely a “different” one. Yet it is the main argument of this chapter that in offering such a different perspective, MST can contribute to further an understanding of a number of core problems of IR theorizing.

Before doing so, I will first review the argument in favor of bringing Modern Systems Theory into IR. The third section then analyzes the similarities between poststructuralism and Modern Systems Theory in more detail. Following this, I will elaborate my skepticism as outlined above, and end with the suggestion to see Modern Systems Theory as a particular discourse of society with politico-ethical consequences. In Luhmann’s terminology, my suggestion is to observe the observation Politics, Modern Systems Theory and International Relations Theory 33 of international relations, although I suppose he would not have done so with a critical purpose.

Beisheim et al. 1999), as well as by the observation of an increasing density of functionally specific regulatory regimes through processes of legalization (cf. Goldstein et al. 2000). Although it is a difficult if not impossible task to determine a “threshold value” at which a functional differentiation assumes a primacy over regional differentiation within the political system of world society, the combined insights of much post-realist IR research can be read to point to a steadily increasing importance of functional differentiation within world society.

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