Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple Global Discord in the New Millennium

Name: Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple Global Discord in the New Millennium
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ISBN: 9781421412771

ISBN-10: 1421412772

ISBN-13: 9781421412771

Edition: 2014

Authors: Randall L. Schweller, Stan Wakefield

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.25" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.968