TY  - BOOK
TI  - The international order at the beginning of the 21st century: Theoretical considerations
SN  - 9783631559376
U1  - 320 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Frankfurt
PB  - Peter Lang
N1  - INTRODUCTION
THE RESEARCH DESIGN
1. RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
1.1. Issuns AND Challenges to Social Sciences and Theories
IN THE current SITUATION
1 .2. Between Dilemmas and Solutions in Social Sciences
2. FINDING A VIA MEDIA AND AN EXIT STRATEGY:
THE 'OTHER' RESEARCH FRAMEWORK.
3. HYPOTHESES,
4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
5. METHODOLOGY
6. THE KEY RESEARCH TARGETS
7. THE RESEARCH STRUCTURE....
8. VALUE ADDED OF THE RESEARCH WORK
PART A: ORDER ANALYSIS.
1. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY, POST-MODERNIST
OVERTURE
1.1. How to approach a compllx social Situation?,
1.2. Thf. International Order: Conceptual Considerations
1.3. The International Girder and International Order
Complexes; Closer to societal Reality?.
1.4. Cascading Interdependence as new Approach to explain
THE Behavior OF THE International Order
2. CHANGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
2.1. The term'Change*
2.2. How to measure Change?.
2.3. A Taxonomy OF Change
2.4. Sources OF Change
2.5. Change and Forecast: A critical Inventory
2.6. Stability AND Balance
2.7. The Time-Space Calculus as Framework for Change
3. A MATRIX AS A BRIDGE TO UNDERSTAND CHANGE IN
THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL ORDER.
3. 1. Levels of Analyses...
3.2. Sectors OF Analyses.
4. SUMMARY ON THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL
ORDER FROM A THEORETICAL POINT OF VIEW.
PART B: ACTORS: TOWARDS A TAXONOMY
1. ACTORS: UNVEILING THE UNKNOWN...
1.1. The Nation State as the sovereign Actor....
1.2. The Modern State..
1.3. The modern State and the Concept of Sovereignty ,
1.4. Reflections Regarding the Post-Modern State of
THE 21" Century..
2. REACTIONS OF THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS: HAS THE CONCEPT OF STATE BECOME
OBSOLETE?...
3. NON-SOVEREIGN ACTORS (NON-STATE ACTORS)
4. CONSEQUENCES FOR THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL
CONSIDERATIONS: TOWARDS A TAXONOMY
4.1. Basic Deliberations..
4.2. Order Complexes; A first Step towards a Taxonomy
4.3. Extended Options: A relation and effect-based Approach:
The US Approach..,
4.4. An Approach for Smaller States
4.5. Network Considerations
5. ACTORS' TAXONOMY OF THE UNDERLYING
RESEARCH WORK..
PART C: THE CONCEPT OF SECURITY:
ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
1. THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.
1.1. Defining 'Security' in the Field of IR ....
1.2. Security, Anarchy and Interdependence in the
International Order
2. EXISTENTIAL POTENTIALS FOR CHANGE: AN OPTION
TO REDUCE COMPLEXITY
2.1. The Key Pillars OF the Concept..
2.2. The Connections between Security and Existential
Potentials for Change
3. THE ^CONCEPT OF SECURITIZATION'.
4. ENHANCING THE APPROACH.
5. SUMMARY.
PART D: POTENTIALS FOR CHANGE
1. BASIC DELIBERATIONS ON THE CURRENT
CHALLENGE AGENDA..
2. TERMS AND TERMINOLOGY...
3. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
AS KEY DRIVER...
4. INNER CIRCLE TAXONOMY
4.1. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
4.2. Fundamentalism and Terrorism ,
4.3. Consequences of Globalization
4.4. Weak States AND State Failure.,
5. OUTER CIRCLE TAXONOMY
5.1. Demographic Trends: Population Growth-Overaging--
Migration
5.2. Environment.
5.3. Technological Change
6. EFFECT NETWORKS .
7. THE REGIONAL EFFECTS.
8. ON THE WAY TO A DESCRIPTIVE TAXONOMY OF
POTENTIALS FOR CHANGE....
8.1. The NIC-2020 Global Landscape
8.2. The latest QDR-Challenge Assessment (QDR Strategic
Environment) and its reflection in the NSS 2006.
8.3. Taxonomy of the Potentials for Change in the
underlying Research Work .
9. SUMMARY REGARDING THE CURRENT
INTERNATIONAL ORDER.
PART E: EARLY WARNING (EW) AND
EARLY RESPONSE (ER).
1. WHAT ARE EARLY WARNING (EW) AND EARLY
RESPONSE (ER) ALL ABOUT?.
1.1. Basic Deliberations.
1.2. Terminological Deliberations on EW and ER.
1.3. If everything is Crisis, nothing is Crisis: Un-mingling the
terminological Confusion ..
1.4. Potentials for Change as Basis to arrive at Existential
Challenges ..
1.5. Signals: Theoretical Considerations and practical
Applications.
2. EARLY WARNING APPROACHES
2.1. Basic Deliberations.
2.2. An Overview OF Approaches
3. EARLY RESPONSE APPROACHES
3.1. Basic Deliberations
3.2. Intervention Approaches with preventive Components ....
3.3. Intervention Approaches with mediative Components
3.4. Intervention Approaches with Enforcement Components
3.5. Intervention Approaches for the Post-Conflict Period
4. PRE-EMPTION (PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES;
ANTICIPATORY SELF-DEFENSE)
5. A CRITICAL APPRAISAL
5.1. From the theoretical Point of View
5.2. From the practical Point of View ....
6. REQUIREMENTS AND OPTIONS...
6.1. Theoretical Requirements .
6.2. Practical Requirements
6.3. Summarizing Deliberations
PART F: SYNOPSIS..
1. POINTS OF DEPARTURE..,
2. RESULTS.
2.1. Regarding the current International Order
2.2. Regarding the Actors within the Order .
2.3. Regarding the Challenges within the Order..
2.4. Regarding Early Warning-Early Response
3. OUTLOOK..
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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