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 /

The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established jointly by the United States and Soviet Union in Austria in 1972, was intended to advance scientific collaboration. Until the late 1980s, the IIASA was one of the very few permanent sites where p...

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Main Author: Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.