Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm

Contents

Contents 1 Thinking About the World We Make 1 Neil E. Harrison 2 Complexity Is More Than Systems Theory 25 Neil E. Harrison with J. David Singer 3 Complexity and Conflict Resolution 43 Dennis J. D. Sandole 4 Understanding and Coping with Ethnic Conflict 73 and Development Issues in Post-Soviet Eurasia Walter C. Clemens, Jr. 5 Beyond Regime Theory: Complex Adaptation 95 and the Ozone Depletion Regime Matthew J. Hoffmann 6 Agent-Based Models in the Study of Ethnic Norms 121 and Violence Ravi Bhavnani 7 Alternative Uses of Simulation 137 Robert Axelrod 8 Signifying Nothing? What Complex Systems Theory 143 Can and Cannot Tell Us about Global Politics David C. Earnest and James N. Rosenau v 9 When Worlds Collide: Reflections on the 165 Credible Uses of Agent-Based Models in International and Global Studies Desmond Saunders-Newton 10 Complex Systems and the Practice of World Politics 183 Neil E. Harrison Contributors 197 List of Titles, SUNY series in Global Politics 201 Index 205 vi CONTENTS ...