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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465145503321

Autore

Clemens Walter C

Titolo

Complexity science and world affairs / / Walter C. Clemens, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4619-5244-1

1-4384-4903-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

SUNY Series, James N. Rosenau Series in Global Politics

Disciplina

909.83/1

Soggetti

World politics - 21st century

Evaluation - Methodology

Complexity (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Why a science of complexity? -- Basic concepts of complexity science -- A crucial test case: why the Baltic is not the Balkans -- Culture and the capacity to cope with complexity -- Complexity science as a tool to understand the new Eurasia -- How complexity concepts explain past and present fitness -- Hyperpower challenged: prospects for Americans -- End of the American dream? -- Toward a new paradigm for global studies: -- Challenges to complexity science -- Afterword: science and art: exploring the genome together.

Sommario/riassunto

"Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"--