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Evolution and International Organization

Toward a New Level of Sociopolitical Integration

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Authors:
  1. Volker Rittberger

    1. University of Tübingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studien zur Regierungslehre und Internationalen Politik (SRIP, volume 5)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction: Problems of Theory-Building in the Study of International Organization

    • Volker Rittberger
    Pages 1-8

  3. Sociocultural Evolution and Sociopolitical Organization

    • Volker Rittberger
    Pages 9-27

  4. The International Organization Level of Integration and Its Relationship to the Nation State

    • Volker Rittberger
    Pages 28-54

  5. Industrial Civilization and the Causes of International Organization-Building

    • Volker Rittberger
    Pages 55-83

  6. International Organization-Building and Integration within the Global Context

    • Volker Rittberger
    Pages 84-96

  7. Summary and Conclusions

    • Volker Rittberger
    Pages 97-99

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 100-120
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unlike the historical-descriptive or legalistic approaches still pervading the majority of publications on international organization, has an implicit (empirical-) theoretical orientation. As a concomitant development, Yalem notes an increasing methodological 6 sophistication among some students of international organization. However, except for some favorable comments on the evolving theory of international community formation, Yalem does not evaluate the contribution of the empirical-theory-cum­ methodology literature to the study of international organization. More recently, Riggs and his associates (1970) and Alger (1960-70; 1970) have taken it upon themselves to do just this. The analysis of the impact of bthavioralism on the study of the United Nations system by Robert Riggs and his associates is a rather devastating indictment. Though demonstrating a concern to present balanced and qualified conclusions from their pemsal of the relevant literature, they summarize their assessment in the following statement: Behavioral research has probably been the most disappointing in the area of its central concern, that of theory-building. The grand theories tend to be heuristic in nature, divorced from the essential data base; and the best-supported proposi­ tions have the natrowest theoretical significance. Despite its aims and pretensions, the approach has not yet produced a coherent set of explanatory propositions to bring order or scientific exactness to the study of international organization or any substantial segment of it (Riggs et al. , 1970: 230).

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Tübingen, Germany

    Volker Rittberger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolution and International Organization

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a New Level of Sociopolitical Integration

  • Authors: Volker Rittberger

  • Series Title: Studien zur Regierungslehre und Internationalen Politik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2001-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1563-3Published: 31 December 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2001-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 131

  • Topics: Political Science

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