Complexity science and world affairs
By: Walter C. Clemens, Jr. ; foreword by Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781438449012
Subjects: World politics; Evaluation; Methodology; Complexity (Philosophy)
Description: "Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why a science of complexity?; title: Basic concepts of complexity science; title: A crucial test case: why the Baltic is not the Balkans; title: Culture and the capacity to cope with complexity; title: Complexity science as a tool to understand the new Eurasia; title: How complexity concepts explain past and present fitness; title: Hyperpower challenged: prospects for Americans; title: End of the American dream?; title: Toward a new paradigm for global studies:; title: Challenges to complexity science; title: Afterword: science and art: exploring the genome together.