Description
Book SynopsisMaxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple will appeal to leaders of multinational corporations and government programs as well as instructors of undergraduate courses in international relations.
Trade ReviewThis is the most original and thought-provoking forecast of future world politics to be published in recent years. -- G. John Ikenberry Foreign Affairs ... it is more than simply provocative, it demands attention -- Jonathan Kirshner Political Science Quarterly
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Navigating the Chaos of Contemporary World Politics: Network versus No-work
1. Understanding the Language of Energy: Why Entropy Does Not Herald Doomsday
2. Entropy as Metaphor: Pattern Recognition, Time's Arrow, and the Big Chill
3. The Multidimensions of Disorder: Thermodynamics and World Politics
4. The Role of Emerging Powers in the Age of Entropy; or,What Happens When the Sheriff Leaves Town andAnonymous Moves In
5. How Power Diffusion Works to a State's Advantage: This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather's Multipolar World
6. Rising Entropy at the Macro Level: The World Is Not Flat in Purgatory
7. Rising Entropy at the Micro Level: Information Overload and the Advent of Truthiness
8. Maxwell's Demon and Angry Birds: Big Data to the Rescue?
Notes
Index
