World State/Global State: 
Global governance, legalisation, and constitutionalisation 
as building-blocs of global statehood?

Conference of the Research Training Group World Concepts and Structural Patterns in conjunction with the Institute for World Society Studies

Organizing Comitee:
Mathias Albert, University of Bielefeld
Rudolf Stichweh, University of Bielefeld

6 - 8 May 2004
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld

Program

Thursday, 6 May 2004
14.15
Opening remarks
Rector of the University of Bielefeld

14.30
Introduction
MATHIAS ALBERT/RUDOLF STICHWEH

15.00-18.30
Session I Traditions of “world state”
Participants: MATTHIAS LUTZ-BACHMANN, HARTMUT KAELBLE,
ANDREAS NIEDERBERGER

Dinner

Friday, 7 May 2004
09.30-13.00
Session II World state and world society
Participants: JOHN MEYER, DIRK HANNEMANN, RUDOLF STICHWEH

Lunch

14.30-18.00
Session III Global governance and global legalisation
Participants: MICHAEL ZÜRN, LOTHAR BROCK, JOANNA PFAFF-CZARNECKA, HELMUT WILLKE

Dinner

Saturday, 8 May 2004
09.00-12.30
Session IV Global constitutionalisation
Participants: HAUKE BRUNKHORST, GÜNTHER TEUBNER, CHRIS BROWN

12.30-13.00
Conclusion
MATHIAS ALBERT/RUDOLF STICHWEH