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Emergent actors in world politics : how states and nations develop and dissolve

The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policy-makers. This book presents complex adaptive systems modelling as a way of analyzing world politics.
Print Book, English, ©1997
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1997
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780691021492, 9780691021485, 069102149X, 0691021481
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List of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Modeling Actors in World Politics14Ch. 3Toward Richer Models37Ch. 4Emergent Polarity72Ch. 5Extending the Emergent Polarity Model109Ch. 6Modeling Nationalism136Ch. 7Nationalist Mobilization151Ch. 8Nationalist Coordination184Ch. 9Conclusions for Theory and Policy213Bibliography233Index255