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Author Schweller, Randall L., author.

Title Maxwell's demon and the golden apple : global discord in the new millennium / Randall L. Schweller.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
©2014
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-189) and index.
Contents 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?
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Subject World politics -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
World politics.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Forecasting.
International relations -- Forecasting.
International relations -- Forecasting.
International organization -- Forecasting.
International organization.
Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schweller, Randall L. Maxwell's demon and the golden apple. Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 9781421412771 (DLC) 2013025011 (OCoLC)862066378
ISBN 9781421412788 (electronic book)
1421412780 (electronic book)
9781421412771 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1421412772 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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