Complexity in world politics [[electronic resource] ] : concepts and methods of a new paradigm / / edited by Neil E. Harrison

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.1/01
• Soggetto topico: International relations - Philosophy; International relations - Methodology; Complexity (Philosophy)
• Altri autori: HarrisonNeil E
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Thinking 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Complexity in world politics
• ISBN: 0-7914-8149-2; 1-4294-1187-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807881003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in global politics.