ABSTRACT
Sometimes, the enhanced interdependence was seen simply as a network of transactions among national societies. And sometimes supranational perspectives focused on a region rather than the world: the rediscovery of Europe as a social entity was notable. And sometimes the world was seen only in a narrow fi eld, as with the world economy, military system, ecology or organized international polity. But, by and large, there was a great increase in conceptions of the world as some sort of society or system. The chapters of this book focus on such conceptions.
