Maxwell's demon and the golden apple : global discord in the new millennium / / Randall L. Schweller
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| Autore: |
Schweller Randall L.
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| Titolo: |
Maxwell's demon and the golden apple : global discord in the new millennium / / Randall L. Schweller
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | World politics - 21st century - Forecasting |
| International relations - Forecasting | |
| International organization - Forecasting | |
| Twenty-first century | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : navigating the chaos of contemporary world politics : network vs. no-work -- Understanding the language of energy : why entropy does not herald doomsday -- Entropy as metaphor : pattern recognition, time's arrow, and the big chill -- The multidimensions of disorder : thermodynamics and world politics -- The role of emerging powers in the age of entropy, or, What happens when the sheriff leaves town and anonymous moves in -- How power diffusion works to a state's advantage : this is not your great-grandfather's multipolar world -- Rising entropy at the macro level : the world is not flat in purgatory -- Rising entropy at the micro level : information overload and the advent of truthiness -- Maxwell's demon and angry birds : big data to the rescue? |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Maxwell's demon and the golden apple |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-1278-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792166003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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