Abstract
This article argues that although the notion of conflict barely features both in Luhmannian as well as in other theories of world society, most of those theories indeed have something to say aBolit the dynamics and sources of conflicts in world society, if only implicitly so. The article first briefly introduces four different world society theories and the role in which conflict plays in them before it turns to Luhmann's theory. It shows that conflict occupies two places in this context: first, conflict itself is conceptualized as a kind of communication; second, the theory of social differentiation allows us to identify structural sources of conflict in world society. The article then argues that particularly when it comes to identifying sources of conflict in world society, Luhmannian style theory could incorporate a number of insights from other traditions of world society theory, particularly pertaining to the analysis of overlapping forms of differentiation and the role of organizational change in world society.
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