Description
This paper aims to present a theoretical reconfiguration of the three main concepts of the English School of International Relations: international system, international society, and world society. Each of these dimensions is traditionally approached from distinct ontological, epistemological, and methodological elements, which would hinder the analysis of their relationships and generate inconsistencies within the English School itself. The argument presented in these pages is that redefining them based on an ontology of practices grounded in Norbert Elias's processual sociology, rather than in state or transnational ontologies, would make the connection between the elements of the three dimensions possible. It would then be possible to investigate the constitutive rules of each of these environments of interaction instead of phenomena of different natures, such as states and individuals, thus making the criteria for validating knowledge common to all three dimensions.
