Dimensions of War: Understanding War as a Complex Adaptive System - Couverture souple

Samuel Solvit

 
9782296997219: Dimensions of War: Understanding War as a Complex Adaptive System
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 229699721X ISBN 13 : 9782296997219
Editeur : Editions L'Harmattan, 2012

Synopsis

With today mutable identities and various kinds of warfare, how do we further our understanding of war? Reviewing influential war theories from Machiavelli to the present, this book analyses how they reduce war in terms of time, space, interaction, purpose, aim, and/or evolution. Considering war as a complex adaptive system allows us to increase our overall comprehension of contemporary wars.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book proposes an innovative and transversal perspective. Reviewing influential war theories from Machiavelli to the present, it analyzes how they simplify war. Yet war is alive – it is a generative social phenomenon that is accordingly uncertain and self-modifying : a complex adaptive system. Examining the social, temporal, and spatial dimensions of war, this book exposes its unpredictability, complexity, change, and generativeness. It allows us to increase our overall comprehension of contemporary wars as well as to question the limits of the mainstream political and strategic thoughts.

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Éditeur
Editions L'Harmattan
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
français
ISBN 10 
229699721X
ISBN 13 
9782296997219
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
Coordonnées du fabricant
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