Complexity science and world affairs / Walter C. Clemens, Jr.

"Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"--

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Clemens, Walter C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Why a science of complexity?
  • Basic concepts of complexity science
  • A crucial test case: why the Baltic is not the Balkans
  • Culture and the capacity to cope with complexity
  • Complexity science as a tool to understand the new Eurasia
  • How complexity concepts explain past and present fitness
  • Hyperpower challenged: prospects for Americans
  • End of the American dream?
  • Toward a new paradigm for global studies:
  • Challenges to complexity science
  • Afterword: science and art: exploring the genome together.