Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
Wolf Klaus Dieter |
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Ende oder Rückkehr der Geschichte? Weltpolitik vor neuen Herausforderungen | ||
in Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft , Jahrgang 45 (2017), Heft 2 , 2017 , 138-153 | ||
Abstract A seemingly unusual proliferation of conflicts and crises in the world renders supposedly proven policy recipes and repertoires of political action unusable. The political swing to conservative nationalism which is spreading particularly among states in the center of the present world order shows that structures of world order are contested not only from the periphery but increasingly threatened also from the very core. The article examines whether it is world politics itself that has become more complex and confusing or whether our reliance on unsuitable interpretative frameworks hinders us from discovering a possible common basis of the different crisis phenomena. The author maps and classifies transformation processes and crises among states and in the transnational sphere. He argues that the unequal global distribution of opportunities across and within societies offers central categories for a better understanding of the crisis-prone state of the world within one coherent explanatory framework. Moreover, the theme of justice, with its three central dimensions of material distribution, political representation and recognition in the social status order, also offers a basic distinguishing criterion between policy options: inclusion and exclusion. | ||