Complexity in World Politics
eBook - PDF

Complexity in World Politics

Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Complexity in World Politics

Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm

About this book

Demonstrates that world politics is more complex than conventional models can account for.

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.

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Table of contents

  1. COMPLEXITY IN WORLD POLITICS
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Thinking About the World We Make
  4. 2. Complexity Is More Than Systems Theory
  5. 3. Complexity and Conflict Resolution
  6. 4. Understanding and Coping with Ethnic Conflict and Development Issuesin Post-Soviet Eurasia
  7. 5. Beyond Regime Theory: Complex Adaptation and the Ozone Depletion Regime
  8. 6. Agent-Based Models in the Study of Ethnic Norms and Violence
  9. 7. Alternative Uses of Simulation
  10. 8. Signifying Nothing?What Complex Systems Theory Can and Cannot Tell Us about Global Politics
  11. 9. When Worlds Collide: Reflections on the Credible Usesof Agent-Based Models inInternational and Global Studies
  12. 10.Complex Systems and the Practice of World Politics
  13. Contributors
  14. SUNY series in Global Politics
  15. Index