Emerging Risks in a World of Heterogeneity: Interactions Among Countries with Different Sizes, Polities and Societies (Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science, 10) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811079676 ISBN 13: 9789811079672

Publisher: Springer, 2018

Synopsis

This uniquely interdisciplinary volume analyzes the challenges posed by the heterogeneity of the world where radically different players are crammed into increasingly limited political, commercial, social, and ecological space. The rapid rise of Communist Party-ruled China is posing serious challenges to the postwar politico-economic architecture dominated by the United States. Russia, once expected to become a partner of the liberal Western international order, has started behaving in an increasingly unilateral fashion. The developing world is more characterized by failed governance rather than convergence to liberal democracies as was hoped by many Western authors. Given links provided by low-cost carriers, the Internet, and trade and investment, we simply cannot shield ourselves from influences, whether benign or malign, from neighbors on this planet.

The authors, including political scientists, economists, social physicists, and experts on complexitytheory and informatics, examine how interactions among actors with different properties can cause problems, and they analyze risks resulting from the interactions. While employing a variety of approaches to address topics such as economic interdependence among democracies and authoritarian states, the development assistance regimes, internal conflicts in developing countries, and cyber security, the whole volume presents a clear overview of challenges and risks the world is facing. This work makes a valuable contribution to students of social sciences as well as to practitioners interested in the emerging global order.

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About the Author

Masayuki Tadokoro, Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345 Japan

Susumu Egashira, Professor, Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce, 3-5-21 Midori, Otaru-city, Hokkaido 047-8501 Japan

Kazuya Yamamoto, Visiting Fellow, Research Institute for Peace and Security, 1-1-12 Meisan Tmeike Bldg.  8 Floor, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 Japan

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This uniquely interdisciplinary volume analyzes the challenges posed by the heterogeneity of the world where radically different players are crammed into increasingly limited political, commercial, social, and ecological space. The rapid rise of Communist Party-ruled China is posing serious challenges to the postwar politico-economic architecture dominated by the United States. Russia, once expected to become a partner of the liberal Western international order, has started behaving in an increasingly unilateral fashion. The developing world is more characterized by failed governance rather than convergence to liberal democracies as was hoped by many Western authors. Given links provided by low-cost carriers, the Internet, and trade and investment, we simply cannot shield ourselves from influences, whether benign or malign, from neighbors on this planet.

The authors, including political scientists, economists, social physicists, and experts on complexitytheory and informatics, examine how interactions among actors with different properties can cause problems, and they analyze risks resulting from the interactions. While employing a variety of approaches to address topics such as economic interdependence among democracies and authoritarian states, the development assistance regimes, internal conflicts in developing countries, and cyber security, the whole volume presents a clear overview of challenges and risks the world is facing. This work makes a valuable contribution to students of social sciences as well as to practitioners interested in the emerging global order.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811079676
• ISBN 13: 9789811079672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Tadokoro Masayuki, Egashira Susumu, Yamamoto Kazuya