Bulletin n. 2/2007
October 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Kessler Oliver, Helmig Jan
    Of Systems, Boundaries, and Regionalisation
    in Geopolitics , Vol. 12, n. 4, October ,  2007 ,  570-585
    For the analysis of regionalisation processes, this contribution calls for a mutual engagement between systems theory and critical geopolitics. Based on Luhmann's systems theory, the contribution proposes a framework based on the idea of a world society. This framework points to a changing mode of differentiation where there is an increasing overlap and collision between territorial and functional boundaries. Emphasising the concept of functional differentiation, a multiplicity of overlapping regional logics and forces appears where functional systems create their own 'image' of space. As a consequence, regions are not characterised by their physical or cultural boundaries but by collisions of different rationalities.
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