GRK 2225: World politics: The emergence of political arenas and modes of observation in world society

研究培训小组的重点是世界政治的出现，作为嵌入在世界社会环境中的政治的一个独特领域。该小组没有将世界政治及其历史简化为一系列占主导地位的组织形式，如民族国家或帝国，以及它们之间的关系，而是采用了一种全面的视角，涵盖了支撑世界政治作为一个高度复杂的社会领域出现的过程和实践。因此，它建立在不同领域的专业知识-国际关系，社会学（世界社会理论），全球历史和国际法，以使自己融入并促进“全球历史社会学”的快速发展的国际研究景观。在各种学科投入的指导下，该小组作为一个整体继续应用已被证明是非常富有成效的分析方法，即观察模式和组织模式之间的区别，作为对世界政治演变中相互联系但又相互独立的方面的观点。为了反映该小组在可能总共三轮申请中的两轮中吸引的个人（博士后）研究项目，它还在其研究方案中指定了两个专题领域，将指导未来的合作努力。这些领域包括，首先，世界政治作为一个比较的地平线，连接地理和社会上遥远的结构和过程，其次，全球模型，“脚本”和“蓝图”的具体做法和世界政治的行为者。通过其研究和资格计划，该小组的主要目标仍然是促进高质量的个人研究成果在有限的时间内完成，以最好的方式支持初级研究人员，以实现这一目标，并帮助他们发展“研究个性”，以及作为一个群体产生合作成果。由于具有高度的内在国际性，该小组寻求提高其作为一个小组的国际知名度，特别是提高属于该小组的博士研究人员的国际知名度。

The Research Training Group focuses on the emergence of world politics as a distinct field of the political embedded in a world society environment. Rather than reducing world politics and its history to a range of dominant organisational forms, such as nation-states or empires, and the relations between them, the group adopts a comprehensive perspective covering the processes and practices that underpin the emergence of world politics as a highly complex social realm. Accordingly, it builds on the expertise of different fields – International Relations, Sociology (world society theories), Global History, and International Law, in order to situate itself in, as well as contribute to, a fast-growing international research landscape of ‘global historical sociology’. Informed by a variety of disciplinary inputs, the group as a whole continues to apply what has proven to be a highly fruitful analytical heuristics, namely the distinction between modes of observation and modes of organisation as perspectives on linked but separate aspects of world political evolution. Reflecting the individual (post)doctoral research projects that the group has attracted during two out of a possible total of three application rounds, it has also specified two thematic fields within its research programme that will guide future collaborative efforts. These fields cover, firstly, world politics as a horizon of comparing that links geographically and socially distant structures and processes and, secondly, global models, ‘scripts’ and ‘blueprints’ of specific practices and actors in world politics.With its research and qualification programme, the primary aim of the group remains to foster high-quality individual research outputs completed in a limited amount of time, to support junior researchers in the best ways possible in order to achieve this and to help them develop ‘research personalities’, as well as to produce collaborative output as a group. With a high degree of built-in internationality, the group seeks to increase its own international visibility as a group, and, more particularly, that of the individual (post)doctoral researchers who belong to it.