Complexity science and world affairs /Walter C. Clemens, Jr.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
"Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"--
9781461952442
World politics--21st century. Evaluation--Methodology. Complexity (Philosophy)