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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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?