In this Book
- Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- 7. Alternative Uses of Simulation
- pp. 137-142
- Contributors
- pp. 197-200
- SUNY series in Global Politics
- pp. 201-204
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791481493
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
74813048
Pages
220
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No