Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and DissolvePrinceton University Press, 1997 M06 12 - 258 pages The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. Lars-Erik Cederman argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing. First, the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state and the nation. Second, traditional theory usually treats these units as fixed. Cederman offers a fresh way of analyzing world politics: complex adaptive systems modeling. He provides a new series of models--not ones that rely on rational-choice, but rather computerized thought-experiments--that separate the state from the nation and incorporate these as emergent rather than preconceived actors. This theory of the emergent actor shifts attention away from the exclusively behavioral focus of conventional international relations theory toward a truly dynamic perspective that treats the actors of world politics as dependent rather than independent variables. |
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... Collective Action Historical Illustrations Conclusion Appendix Chapter 8. Nationalist Coordination Introduction An Ecological Model of Nationality Formation 163 170 174 177 184 184 187 Technical Specification 191 Simulation Results 197 ...
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Contents
Modeling Actors in World Politics | 14 |
An Overview of the Literature | 23 |
Why Models Are Needed | 29 |
Conclusion | 36 |
Emergent Polarity | 72 |
Modeling Nationalism | 136 |
Nationalist Mobilization | 151 |
Nationalist Coordination | 184 |
Conclusions for Theory and Policy | 213 |
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