LEADER 03921nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910807881003321 005 20240417034255.0 010 $a0-7914-8149-2 010 $a1-4294-1187-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000466452 035 $a(OCoLC)74813048 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579063 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000127299 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157325 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000127299 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10051571 035 $a(PQKB)10345296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407640 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6430 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407640 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579063 035 $a(OCoLC)923407538 035 $a(DE-B1597)683983 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791481493 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000466452 100 $a20050818d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aComplexity in world politics$b[electronic resource] $econcepts and methods of a new paradigm /$fedited by Neil E. Harrison 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in global politics 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6807-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThinking about the world we make / Neil E. Harrison -- Complexity is more than systems theory / Neil E. Harrison and J. David Singer -- Complexity and conflict resolution / Dennis J.D. Sandole -- Understanding and coping with ethnic conflict and development issues in post-Soviet Eurasia / Walter C. Clemens, Jr. -- Beyond regime theory : complex adaptation and the ozone depletion regime / Matthew J. Hoffmann -- Agent-based norms in the study of ethnic norms and violence / Ravi Bhavnani -- Alternative uses of simulation / Robert Axelrod -- Signifying nothing? : what complex systems theory can and cannot tell us about global politics / David C. Earnest and James N. Rosenau -- When worlds collide : reflections on the credible uses of agent-based models in international and global studies / Desmond Saunders-Newton -- Complex systems and the practice of world politics / Neil E. Harrison. 330 $aDespite one hundred years of theorizing, scholars and practitioners alike are constantly surprised by international and global political events. The collapse of communism in Europe, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and 9/11 have demonstrated the inadequacy of current models that depict world politics as a simple, mechanical system. Complexity in World Politics shows how conventional theories oversimplify reality and illustrates how concepts drawn from complexity science can be adapted to increase our understanding of world politics and improve policy. In language free of jargon, the book's distinguished contributors explain and illustrate a complexity paradigm of world politics and define its central concepts. They show how these concepts can improve conventional models as well as generate new ideas, hypotheses, and empirical approaches, and conclude by outlining an agenda of theoretical development and empirical research to create and test complex systems theories of issue-areas of world politics. 410 0$aSUNY series in global politics. 606 $aInternational relations$xPhilosophy 606 $aInternational relations$xMethodology 606 $aComplexity (Philosophy) 615 0$aInternational relations$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aInternational relations$xMethodology. 615 0$aComplexity (Philosophy) 676 $a327.1/01 701 $aHarrison$b Neil E$01189540 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807881003321 996 $aComplexity in world politics$94025571 997 $aUNINA