Claudia Hofmann engages in a theoretical modelling of international learning processes and the substantiation of this model through three cases from international politics. She answers two questions: How may international actors learn as a collective? And how may the lessons learned influence actor behaviour and problem solving processes? As a foundation for answering these questions she examines the nature of actor behaviour within a social international system and integrates the diffusion of norms and values among macro-level actors.

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Dr. Claudia Hofmann is Researcher (Post Doc) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).

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Book Title: Learning in Modern International Society
Book Subtitle: On the Cognitive Problem Solving Abilities of Political Actors
Authors: Claudia Hofmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90789-5
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-15635-4Published: 25 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-90789-5Published: 15 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 159
Topics: Political Science, Comparative Politics

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Learning in Modern International Society

Constructing International Politics

Cases of International Learning

The World Bank and Global Poverty Alleviation

Global Governance and the International Criminal Court

Global Civil Society and the Prevention of Armed Conflict

Findings: Changing and Adapting International Norms and Values

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