Emerging Risks in a World of Heterogeneity

Masayuki Tadokoro, Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345 JapanSusumu Egashira, Professor, Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce, 3-5-21 Midori, Otaru-city, Hokkaido 047-8501 JapanKazuya Yamamoto, Visiting Fellow, Research Institute for Peace and Security, 1-1-12 Meisan Tmeike Bldg.  8 Floor, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 Japan

• 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.