Theorizing Global Order

Theorizing Global Order: A Brief IntroductionGunther Hellmann Theorizing international relations presupposes a conception of what the subject matter and its bounds are. We have to have some idea of the entity at the center of our theorizing-the 'international' and/or the 'global'; 'relations', 'systems' 'structure(s)' and/or 'order', just to name a few. Of course, political orders have been at the center of political theory since antiquity. However, compared to efforts at theorizing 'international relations' or 'international systems', the notion of international and/ or global 'order' has remained surprisingly undertheorized, exceptions not-withstanding.This volume offers different contemporary perspectives on theorizing global order. It is the result of a lecture series organized by the Frankfurt 'Center of Excellence' 'Formation of Normative Orders'. The aim of the lecture series (and the chapters in this volume) was not to offer 'a new theory' (or, for that matter, 'alternative theories') of international or global order. Rather, by shedding novel light at different dimensions of ordering international (and global) politics-both in terms of alternative ordering perspectives and alternative ordering arrangements-the volume as a whole aims at taking the double meaning of order(ing) as "fact" and "value" seriously.From a conceptual history point of view the notion of order has always carried the dual meaning of order as (more or less arbitrary) arrangement (Greek táxis) and order as natural and nurtured whole (kósmos). In modern forms of IR theorizing this dual semantic has lived on in Realist (presumably purely analytical) notions of order 'in' (or 'under') 'anarchy' and more or less explicitly normative forms of theorizing reaching from constitutional or societal notions of international order to all-encompassing notions of a juridically stabilized imperial capitalist order or discursively shaped orders of truth and power in the form of practices and techniques

ContentsTheorizing Global Order: A Brief Introduction7Gunther HellmannThe Modern International: A Scalar Politics of Divided Subjectivities13R.B.J. WalkerThinking About World Order, Inquiring Into Others' Conceptions of the International37Pinar BilginSeeing Culture in World Politics66Christian Reus-SmitOrder in a Borderless World: Nomads Confront Globalization91Erik RingmarDiplomacy as Global Governance118Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob SendingThe Sociology of International Relations in India: Competing Conceptions of Political Order142Siddharth MallavarapuNotes on Contributors172

Gunther Hellmann ist Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Frankfurt am Main.