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The Power of Systems

Egle Rindzeviciute · 2016

127,345 words · about 8 h 55 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Rindzeviciute, Egle (2016), The Power of Systems, open access publisher - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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Author
Egle Rindzeviciute
Language
English
Published
2016
Length
127,345 words · about 8 h 55 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (4)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 4 min
  3. Introduction about 6 h 5 min
  4. Epilogue about 2 h 45 min
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Front matter

tHE POWER OF SYSTEMS

HOW POLICY SCIENCES OPENED UP THE COLD WAR WORLD

THE POWER OF SYSTEMS

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction: The Rise of System-Cybernetic Governmentality 1 1. Gray Eminences of the Scientific-Technical Revolution 24 2. Bridging East and West: The Birth of IIASA 52

3. Shaping a Transnational Systems Community (1): Networks and Institutions 73

Family versus War Room 94 5. The East-West Politics of Global Modeling 129 6. From Nuclear Winter to the Anthropocene 150 7. Acid Rain: Scientific Expertise and Governance across

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