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Maxwell's demon and the golden apple : global discord in the new millennium /

Just what exactly will follow the American century? This is the question Randall L. Schweller explores in his provocative assessment of international politics in the twenty-first century. Schweller considers the future of world politics, correlating our reliance on technology and our multitasking, d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schweller, Randall L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?