Complexity in World Politics

Neil E. Harrison is Founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Institute and the author of Constructing Sustainable Development, also published by SUNY Press.

• 1. Thinking About the World We MakeNeil E. Harrison2. Complexity Is More Than Systems TheoryNeil E. Harrison with J. David Singer 3. Complexity and Conflict Resolution Dennis J. D. Sandole 4. Understanding and Coping with Ethnic Conflict and Development Issues in Post-Soviet EurasiaWalter C. Clemens, Jr.5. Beyond Regime Theory: Complex Adaptation and the Ozone Depletion RegimeMatthew J. Hoffmann6. Agent-Based Models in the Study of Ethnic Norms and ViolenceRavi Bhavnani7. Alternative Uses of SimulationRobert Axelrod8. Signifying Nothing? What Complex Systems Theory Can and Cannot Tell Us about Global PoliticsDavid C. Earnest and James N. Rosenau9. When Worlds Collide: Reflections on the Credible Uses of Agent-Based Models in International and Global StudiesDesmond Saunders-Newton10. Complex Systems and the Practice of World PoliticsNeil E. HarrisonContributorsList of Titles, SUNY series in Global PoliticsIndex

"The volume … is a timely overview of the conjectures advanced by such 'complexification' of the study of global life. In this respect, it pulls together the disjointed analyses on the application and approaches of CT to world affairs. In fact, the very ability of the book to pull off such an endeavor is already a significant achievement in its own right … Complexity in World Politics would benefit both the explorations of advanced undergraduate students as well as assist the inquiry of established scholars of international relations." — H-Net Reviews (H-Ideas)"The mapping by Neil Harrison in the volume's introductory chapter of the difference between simple systems and complex ones is very well done, and his argument that the world falls into the complex system category is convincing." — Political Science Quarterly"This book is well written and easily accessible, with essays by some of the major thinkers in the field of complexity science. It makes a number of intellectual contributions and helps fill a gap in the existing literature." — Scott E. Page, coeditor of Computational Models in Political Economy