Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism. Complex systems theory is a scientific theory coming out ...

Security Dialogue, Vol. 42, No. 2, Special Issue on The Global Governance of Security and Finance (April 2011), pp. 143-160 (18 pages) The concept of 'resilience' was first adopted within systems ...

Complex systems theory is usually used to study things like the immune system, global climate, ecosystems, transportation or communications systems. But with global politics becoming more ...

Chaos is somewhere between random and predictable. A hallmark of chaotic systems is predictability in the short term that breaks down quickly over time, as in river rapids or ecosystems. Chaos can ...

A global study of 186 traditional societies found evidence supporting the theory that low-alcohol fermented beverages played a role in the evolution of political complexity, contributing to the ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jun 2005) (13 pages) ABSTRACT. Complex systems are dynamic and may show high levels of variability in both space and time. It is often difficult to decide on what ...

The various Brexit scenarios and the motivations of the gilets jaunes are both very complex and therefore it can be very difficult to understand how these crises arrived and where they are going. In “ ...

Complex systems theory is a scientific theory coming out of a tradition of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, control theory, and especially cybernetics. Complex systems theory arises as a rejection of ...