Walter C. Clemens Jr. is an Associate at the Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Boston University. He is the author of many books, including Getting to Yes in Korea; Dynamics of International Relations, Second Edition: Conflict and Mutual Gain in an Era of Global Interdependence; and The Baltic Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security.

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Foreword
Stuart A. Kauffman

To the Reader

Acknowledgments

1. Why a Science of Complexity?

2. Basic Concepts of Complexity Science

3. A Crucial Test Case: Why the Baltic Is Not the Balkans

4. Culture and the Capacity to Cope with Complexity

5. Complexity Science as a Tool to Understand the New Eurasia

6. How Complexity Concepts Explain Past and Present Fitness

7. Hyperpower Challenged: Prospects for Americans

8. What Future for the American Dream?

9. Why Is South Korea Not North Korea?

10. Toward a New Paradigm for Global Studies

11. Challenges to Complexity Science

Afterword: Science and Art in this Book: Exploring the Genome Together
Daniel Kohn

Notes
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Index