Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple

Global Discord in the New Millennium

von Randall L Schweller

216 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Mixing myth, entropy, and Angry Birds, Randall Schweller brings a novel perspective to international studies.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 disorganization that governs the direction of all physical changes taking place in the universe." Interweaving his theory of global disorder with issues on the world stage--coupled with a disquisition on board games and the cell phone app "Angry Birds"--Schweller's thesis yields astonishing insights. 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.

• Themen: Lexika Interdisziplinäre Studien Globalisierung
• ISBN: 9781421412771
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2014
• Größe: 233 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press