Complexity science and world affairs /

Clemens, Walter C.

Complexity science and world affairs / Walter C. Clemens, Jr. - 1 online resource (292 pages)

Includes bibliographies.

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.

9781438449012 9781438449036


World politics--21st century.
Evaluation--Methodology.
Complexity (Philosophy)


Electronic books.

D863 / .C54 2013

909.83/1