The Forever Crisis
eBook - ePub

The Forever Crisis

Adaptive Global Governance for an Era of Accelerating Complexity

  1. 194 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Forever Crisis

Adaptive Global Governance for an Era of Accelerating Complexity

About this book

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level. It offers concepts, tools, and ways of thinking about how systems change that can be applied to the most wicked problems facing the world today.

More than an abstract argument for complexity theory, the book offers a targeted critique of today's highest-profile proposals for improving the governance of our environment, security, finance, health, and digital space. It suggests that we should spend less effort and resources on upgrading existing institutions, and more on understanding how they (and we) relate to each other.

The volume will be essential reading for public policymakers, NGOs and think tanks, foreign policy experts, government officials, and global decision-makers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Endorsements
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 A simple guide to complexity
  11. 2 Applying complexity to global governance
  12. 3 Beyond the tipping point: Environmental governance in the Anthropocene
  13. 4 Violence as a disease: An immune system against war
  14. 5 Bugs in the system: Cyberattacks and the problem of endless infection
  15. 6 Rise of the machines: AI becomes ungovernable
  16. 7 Back to the future: How complexity can help us save the world
  17. An afterworld
  18. Index