World Ordering
A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19917834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emanuel Adler (0000-0003-3464-2143, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | World Ordering (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108325615 |
| OpenAlex | W4210985507 |
| Open Library | OL34718601M |
| ISBN | 9781108325615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 99 |
| References cited | 736 |
Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders - Europe's contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order - to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of common humanity and epistemological security, the author also submits a normative theory of better practices and of bounded progress
Economics · Epistemology · Normative · Ontology · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Social constructivism · Social order · Social science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Philosophy · International Relations · Social Constructionism · Social psychology · sociological aspects
When Can We Know Practices? Rules, Logics, and Epistemologies of Practice in IR
Equality in view of political correctness, cancel culture and other oxymora
Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy
The Gray Area of Institutional Change
Communities of Practice in World Politics
Forum
The Making of Balance-of-Power—Power Asymmetry, Domestic Politics, and the Making of Balancing Practices
Crisis and Transformative Learning in Communities of Practice
Cultivating Communities of Practice
We Are a Community of Practice, Not a Paradigm! How to Meaningfully Integrate Gender and Feminist Approaches in IR Syllabi
Pragmatism in IR
Global Ordering and the Interaction of Communities of Practice
Field Overlaps, Normativity, and the Contestation of Practices in China's Belt and Road Initiative
From Conflict to Communities
Emergent Normativity
Securing the Self, Embracing Anxiety, or Nurturing Growth? How the Pragmatism of Dewey, James, and Mead Speaks to Ontological Security Studies
Party Time
Norm Contestation and Pragmatic Ethics
Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)
Global Hierarchies and Unequal Pressures in the Report-Making of Truth Commissions
Complexity and Dissonance
Practice Contestation in and between Communities of Practice
An Emergent Community of Cyber Sovereignty
America's Pragmatic Role
Beyond state law
The Global South contestation narratives and the transformation of military humanitarian interventions in the early 1990s
Does Multilateralism still Matter? Asean and the Arctic Council in Comparative Perspective
Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy
Rendezvous in Space
From Annexation to independence
The Multiplicity Straightjacket
Contamination of Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Environmental Fight for Safe and Health
Communities of practice, impression management, and great power status
Strategic non-nuclear weapons and the onset of a Third Nuclear Age
Towards a ‘theory of the gap’
Dynamics of salient normative status dimensions and issues in a changing international order
Diplomats on the Frontlines
From Practices to Praxis
Collective Memory and National Role Conceptions
The dangers of interpretation
Stay off my field
Protean power as a plea for an open social ontology, non-efficient causal explanations, and cautious political practice
Global governance in the age of epistemic authority
Turning’ everywhere in IR
Protean power
Reification, practice, and the ontological status of social facts
Control power as a special case of protean power
Unknown effects of social innovations
Building an international relations journal from scratch and from the margins
Diversifying Boundary Organizations
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Creating common sense
A pragmatist theory of power
Practices of comparison and the making of international orders
The science of world order
Collective Learning at the Boundaries of Communities of Practice
Coloniality of Epistemic Power in International Practices
Commonsense sovereignty
Darkness and Light in a Global Political Economy
What is the ‘regular work’? Constructing and contesting everyday committee practices in the World Trade Organization
From ‘Westlessness’ to renewal of the liberal international order
Epistemic security and the redemptive hegemony of magical realism
Different fields, different appropriateness? Unpacking emerging normativity in China’s AI governance
Pragmatist Power Europe
Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel
Negotiating racial subjection
Arms embargo monitoring at the UN Security Council
Washington and tragicomedy
Navigating pregnancy and scholarship
The complexity of nuclear (dis)ordering
L’Union européenne vue du seuil
Cultural images and foreign policy learning
A Cognitive Analysis on China’s Persistence in the No-Strings-Attached Foreign Aid Principle
Post)Colonial Complexities and World (Re)Ordering
Navigating the In‐Between Space
Pragmatic ordering
African agency and global orders
The Scandinavian states' staffing of the United Nations‐system
Social Transformation and Violence
Creative Learning and Policy Ideas
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices
Paradigms and Practice
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies
The Practices of Evaluating Entitlements
Digital Multilateralism in Practice
Agency is Positionally Distributed
A Feminist Critique of International Practices
Theorizing Infrastructures in Global Politics
The Underside of Order
The Epistemological Challenge of Truth Subversion to the Liberal International Order
Historical Institutionalism Meets Practice Theory
Revue historique de la gouvernance mondiale de l'environnement (1945–2022)
How diplomacy evolves
How to challenge an international order
Worldmaking from the margins
Typologizing change in the evolution of world politics
The challenge of nation-building in the digital age
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the 'common heritage of humankind' principle
At Home in the Universe
Capitalism and Slavery
Science in action
The nerves of government
National collective identity
Hidden order
Mankind Evolving
Progress in Postwar International Relations
Anthony Giddens
Unipolar politics
Rubbish theory
Social change in developing areas
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Institutions and organizations
From being to becoming
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
The sociology of social change
The professional quest for truth
Chaos, complexity, and sociology
The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy
The Internet Galaxy
Karl Marx
The Rise and Decline of the State
The principles of psychology.
Making the Social World
Networks and States
Thought and language.
Opting Out of the European Union
Critique of Pure Reason
The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
Science as Practice and Culture
Darwin's Conjecture
Shared Agency
Social Practices
Human Agency and Language
The Nuclear Taboo
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
A Theory of Contestation
City of Capital
Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare
Architectures of Knowledge
Access Controlled
A Theory of Global Governance
Embedded Cosmopolitanism
Perspectives on socially shared cognition.
Turbulence in World Politics
Animal Species and Evolution
Quantum Mind and Social Science
Toward a psychology of being.
Individual Rights and the Making of the International System
The Problem of Harm in World Politics
Science as a Process
The System of Professions
The origins of intelligence in children.
World-Systems Analysis
The Discursive Mind
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Body Consciousness
Legitimacy and Legality in International Law
The Global Transformation
Communities of Practice
Globalization and Sovereignty
Emergent Actors in World Politics
After Victory
Organizational Ecology
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
The Origins of Order
Who Controls the Internet?
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
Open Standards and the Digital Age
Political Psychology in International Relations
Pragmatist DemocracyEvolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy
Social Cognition
Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations
The Politics of Everyday Europe
Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
The Evolution of Modern States
The Rites of Passage
Emergence From Chaos to Order
Cognition in the Wild
The Secret of Our Success
Risk and Resilience
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
What are communities of practice? A comparative review of four seminal works
The Logic of Tacit Inference
Communities Of Practice, Foucault And Actor‐Network Therory
Cultural learning
Interpretation and the sciences of man
What Are Institutions?
Can social interaction constitute social cognition?
Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems
A ‘Rhizomic’ Model of Organizational Change and Transformation
International practices
D arwin's D angerous I dea
The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
Essay
Knowledge and Organization
| Unique citing works | 99 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |