Emerging risks in a world of heterogeneity : interactions among countries with different sizes, polities and societies
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Emerging risks in a world of heterogeneity : interactions among countries with different sizes, polities and societies
(Evolutionary economics and social complexity science, v. 10)
Springer, c2018
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This uniquely interdisciplinary volume analyzes the challenges posed by the heterogeneity of the world where radically different players are crammed into increasingly limited political, commercial, social, and ecological space. The rapid rise of Communist Party-ruled China is posing serious challenges to the postwar politico-economic architecture dominated by the United States. Russia, once expected to become a partner of the liberal Western international order, has started behaving in an increasingly unilateral fashion. The developing world is more characterized by failed governance rather than convergence to liberal democracies as was hoped by many Western authors. Given links provided by low-cost carriers, the Internet, and trade and investment, we simply cannot shield ourselves from influences, whether benign or malign, from neighbors on this planet.The authors, including political scientists, economists, social physicists, and experts on complexity theory and informatics, examine how interactions among actors with different properties can cause problems, and they analyze risks resulting from the interactions. While employing a variety of approaches to address topics such as economic interdependence among democracies and authoritarian states, the development assistance regimes, internal conflicts in developing countries, and cyber security, the whole volume presents a clear overview of challenges and risks the world is facing. This work makes a valuable contribution to students of social sciences as well as to practitioners interested in the emerging global order.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Part I Size.- Chapter 1: Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System.- Chapter 2: Effects of the Size of a Country on its Economic Performance.- Part II Political Regimes and Social Structure.- Chapter 3: Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a Heterogeneous World: Computer Simulation and Evolutionary Dynamics.- Chapter 4: The Superficial Success of the Development Assistance Committee: Emerging Donors and the Revival of Economic Statecraft.- Chapter 5: How Structural Heterogeneities turned into Political Issues: Lessons from the U.S.-Japan Structural Talks.- Part III Inside a State.- Chapter 6: Role of Third-Party Guarantors in Uncertainty of Preventive Civil War: Can Thucydides Trap be resolved?.- Chapter 7: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: The Effect of Information Stimulus on Levels of Support for Foreign Aid and Coalition Withdrawal.- Part IV Interactions between the International System, Domestic Society, and Individuals.- Chapter 8: Agent-Based Simulation as a Method for International Political Science: A Way of Expressing Diversity.- Chapter 9: Considering Provision of Global Public Goods with Community Task Game: A Multi-Agent Simulation Analysis.
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