The Power of Systems : How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World

The Power of Systems How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World

In The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzeviciute introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press 2016.
Series:Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
Subjects:
Political science > Methodology.
Policy sciences.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421483006719
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of system-cybernetic governmentality
  • Grey eminences of the scientific-technical revolution
  • Bridging East and West: the birth of IIASA
  • Shaping a transnational systems community (1): networks and institutions
  • Shaping a transnational systems community (2): family versus war room
  • The East-West politics of global modelling
  • From nuclear winter to the Anthropocene
  • Acid rain: scientific expertise and governance across systemic divide
  • The avant-garde of system-cybernetic governmentality.

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