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Maxwell's demon and the golden apple : global discord in the new millennium / Randall L. Schweller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweller, Randall L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics--21st century--Forecasting.
- World politics.
- Forecasting.
- International relations--Forecasting.
- International relations.
- International organization--Forecasting.
- International organization.
- Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
- Twenty-first century.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction : navigating the chaos of contemporary world politics : network vs. no-work
- Understanding the language of energy : why entropy does not herald doomsday
- Entropy as metaphor : pattern recognition, time's arrow, and the big chill
- The multidimensions of disorder : thermodynamics and world politics
- The role of emerging powers in the age of entropy, or, What happens when the sheriff leaves town and anonymous moves in
- How power diffusion works to a state's advantage : this is not your great-grandfather's multipolar world
- Rising entropy at the macro level : the world is not flat in purgatory
- Rising entropy at the micro level : information overload and the advent of truthiness
- Maxwell's demon and angry birds : big data to the rescue?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421412771
- 1421412772
- OCLC:
- 862066378
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