System and Process in International PoliticsECPR Press, 2005 - 260 sidor System and Process (1957) broke the mould in political science by combining systems, game, and cybernetic concepts in its theoretical formulations. Since its publication, serious research in international relations has needed to respond to the bold hypotheses that matched equilibrial rules with type of system. Kaplan's life-long interest in finding an objective basis for moral judgments had its scholarly origins in an appendix of this classical book, which incorporated his understanding of philosophy and, in particular, the philosophy of science. A second appendix on 'The Mechanisms of Regulation' explored the cybernetic and recursive nature of knowing. |
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The international system | 35 |
The international actors | 62 |
The regulatory process | 90 |
The realm of values | 140 |
The national interest and other interests | 141 |
The theory of games | 156 |
Some problems in game theory | 173 |
Strategy and statecraft | 190 |
Unified theory | 219 |
The mechanisms of regulation | 226 |
The realm of values | 241 |
The integrative and the disintegrative processes | 98 |
Processes and the international system | 110 |
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System and Process in International Politics, Volym 10 Morton A. Kaplan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1957 |
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Sida 15 - ... In the first place, the mathematics of complicated interaction problems has not been worked out. For instance, the physical scientist can make accurate predictions with respect to the two-body problem, rough guesses with respect to the three-body problem, and only very incomplete guesses concerning larger numbers of bodies. The scientist cannot predict the path of a single molecule of gas in a tank of gas. In the second place, the predictions of the physical scientist are predictions concerning...
Sida 15 - Moreover, the theory should be able to predict the conditions under which the characteristic behavior of the international system will remain stable, the conditions under which it will be transformed, and the kind of transformation that will take place.
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