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Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Tables; Part I; Chapter 1: The Issue ofßInstitutional Emergence inßEast Asia: AnßIntroduction; 1.1 Regionalism inßEast Asia: Changing Institutional Patterns inßaßComplex Region; 1.2 Institutionalisms andßTheir Shortcomings: Challenging Epiphenomenal Views; 1.3 Introducing theßConcept ofßEmergence toßtheßStudy ofßWorld Politics: Implications forßStudying Regional Institutions; 1.4 A Guide toßtheßStructure ofßtheßBook; 1.5 Notes; References; Chapter 2: A Critical Realist Approach toßtheßStudy ofßWorld Politics.
2.1 A Realist Philosophy ofßScienceThe Science Question andßTwo Distinct Types ofßOntology; Dimensions ofßKnowledge: Transitive andßIntransitive; Dualism, theßWorld, andßEmergent Ontology; 2.2 Key Concepts andßConceptual Abstraction; Key Concepts: Causality, Stratification, andßtheßOpenness ofßSocial Systems; 2.2.0.1 Causality andßMechanisms; 2.2.0.2 Stratification andßEmergence; 2.2.0.3 Closed andßOpen Systems; Conceptual Abstraction andßCausal Analysis; 2.2.0.4 Structural Analysis: Structures asßRelations; 2.2.0.5 Causal Analysis: Powers, Mechanisms, andßTendencies.
2.3 Social Science andßConcrete Research: Methodological ImplicationsGeneralizations asßAbstract Concepts andßInference asßaßThought Operation; A Model forßExplanatory Research: Theory andßResearch Design; The Distinction ofßAgency andßStructure; 2.4 Concluding Remarks: Critical Realism inßInternational Relations; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Emergence andßComplexity inßtheßInternational System: Developing aßSocial Ontology ofßInternational Relations; 3.1 Complexity andßEmergentist Thinking inßIR; 3.1.1 Applying anßEmergent Ontology toßtheßInternational System.
3.1.2 Systems Thinking andßComplexity Approaches inßIR3.1.3 Complex International Systems andßEmergent Properties; 3.2 Emergence inßInternational Systems: Introducing theßConcept ofßEmergence; 3.2.1 A Short History andßtheßMain Distinctions ofßtheßConcept ofßEmergence; 3.2.2 Social Emergence inßComplex International Systems; 3.2.3 Downward Causation andßIrreducibility; 3.3 Regional Institutions asßEmergent Entities ofßtheßInternational System: Relational Organization andßEmergent Properties; 3.3.1 Identifying Regional Institutions asßEmergent Entities; 3.3.2 Reformulating Institutional Design.
3.3.2.1 Institutional Design asßaßVariable3.3.2.2 Institutional Design asßEmergent Properties; 3.3.3 Emergent Properties, Powers, andßMechanisms; 3.4 Studying Regional Institutions asßEmergent: AßPreliminary Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Emergence andßtheßComplexity ofßSocial Practices: TheßRole ofßDiscourse inßSocial Emergence; 4.1 Discourse asßaßSocial Practice inßComplex International Systems: AßRealist Conception; 4.1.1 The Relevance ofßLanguage andßDiscourse inßSocial Emergence; 4.1.2 A Realist Understanding ofßDiscourse; 4.1.3 A Short Dialogue withßPoststructuralism.
2.1 A Realist Philosophy ofßScienceThe Science Question andßTwo Distinct Types ofßOntology; Dimensions ofßKnowledge: Transitive andßIntransitive; Dualism, theßWorld, andßEmergent Ontology; 2.2 Key Concepts andßConceptual Abstraction; Key Concepts: Causality, Stratification, andßtheßOpenness ofßSocial Systems; 2.2.0.1 Causality andßMechanisms; 2.2.0.2 Stratification andßEmergence; 2.2.0.3 Closed andßOpen Systems; Conceptual Abstraction andßCausal Analysis; 2.2.0.4 Structural Analysis: Structures asßRelations; 2.2.0.5 Causal Analysis: Powers, Mechanisms, andßTendencies.
2.3 Social Science andßConcrete Research: Methodological ImplicationsGeneralizations asßAbstract Concepts andßInference asßaßThought Operation; A Model forßExplanatory Research: Theory andßResearch Design; The Distinction ofßAgency andßStructure; 2.4 Concluding Remarks: Critical Realism inßInternational Relations; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Emergence andßComplexity inßtheßInternational System: Developing aßSocial Ontology ofßInternational Relations; 3.1 Complexity andßEmergentist Thinking inßIR; 3.1.1 Applying anßEmergent Ontology toßtheßInternational System.
3.1.2 Systems Thinking andßComplexity Approaches inßIR3.1.3 Complex International Systems andßEmergent Properties; 3.2 Emergence inßInternational Systems: Introducing theßConcept ofßEmergence; 3.2.1 A Short History andßtheßMain Distinctions ofßtheßConcept ofßEmergence; 3.2.2 Social Emergence inßComplex International Systems; 3.2.3 Downward Causation andßIrreducibility; 3.3 Regional Institutions asßEmergent Entities ofßtheßInternational System: Relational Organization andßEmergent Properties; 3.3.1 Identifying Regional Institutions asßEmergent Entities; 3.3.2 Reformulating Institutional Design.
3.3.2.1 Institutional Design asßaßVariable3.3.2.2 Institutional Design asßEmergent Properties; 3.3.3 Emergent Properties, Powers, andßMechanisms; 3.4 Studying Regional Institutions asßEmergent: AßPreliminary Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Emergence andßtheßComplexity ofßSocial Practices: TheßRole ofßDiscourse inßSocial Emergence; 4.1 Discourse asßaßSocial Practice inßComplex International Systems: AßRealist Conception; 4.1.1 The Relevance ofßLanguage andßDiscourse inßSocial Emergence; 4.1.2 A Realist Understanding ofßDiscourse; 4.1.3 A Short Dialogue withßPoststructuralism.