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9780791468074

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

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    9780791468074

  • ISBN10:

    0791468070

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-06
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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.

Table of Contents

1 Thinking About the World We Make
1(24)
Neil E. Harrison
2 Complexity Is More Than Systems Theory
25(18)
Neil E. Harrison with J. David Singer
3 Complexity and Conflict Resolution
43(30)
Dennis J.D. Sandole
4 Understanding and Coping with Ethnic Conflict and Development Issues in Post-Soviet Eurasia
73(22)
Walter C. Clemens, Jr.
5 Beyond Regime Theory: Complex Adaptation and the Ozone Depletion Regime
95(26)
Matthew J. Hoffmann
6 Agent-Based Models in the Study of Ethnic Norms and Violence
121(16)
Ravi Bhavnani
7 Alternative Uses of Simulation
137(6)
Robert Axelrod
8 Signifying Nothing? What Complex Systems Theory Can and Cannot Tell Us about Global Politics
143(22)
David C. Earnest and James N. Rosenau
9 When Worlds Collide: Reflections on the Credible Uses of Agent-Based Models in International and Global Studies
165(18)
Desmond Saunders-Newton
10 Complex Systems and the Practice of World Politics 183(14)
Neil E. Harrison
Contributors 197(4)
List of Titles, SUNY series in Global Politics 201(4)
Index 205

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