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Maxwell´s Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium
Randall L. Schweller
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Hardback. Maxwell'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. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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, distracted, disorganized lives with a fragmenting world order. He combines the Greek myth of the Golden Apple of Discord, which explains the start of the Trojan War, with a look at the second law of thermodynamics, or entropy. "In the coming age," Schweller writes, "disorder will reign supreme as the world succumbs to entropy, an irreversible process of ... Read more
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, distracted, disorganized lives with a fragmenting world order. He combines the Greek myth of the Golden Apple of Discord, which explains the start of the Trojan War, with a look at the second law of thermodynamics, or entropy. "In the coming age," Schweller writes, "disorder will reign supreme as the world succumbs to entropy, an irreversible process of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421412771
SKU
V9781421412771
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About Randall L. Schweller
Randall L. Schweller is a professor of political science at Ohio State University and author of Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power and Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest.
Reviews for Maxwell´s Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium
This 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
G. John Ikenberry Foreign Affairs ... it is more than simply provocative, it demands attention
Jonathan Kirshner Political Science Quarterly