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BL
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589845
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b419064
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| Main Entry
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Clemens, Walter C.
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| Title & Author
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Complexity science and world affairs /\ Walter C. Clemens, Jr. ; foreword by Stuart A. Kauffman.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in global politics
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| Page. NO
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xxii, 266 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781438449012 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 1438449011 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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"Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"--
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| Subject
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World politics-- 21st century.
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Evaluation-- Methodology.
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Complexity (Philosophy)
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| Dewey Classification
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909.83/1
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| LC Classification
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D863.C54 2013
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