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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 304
Utgivningsdatum: 2016-12-15
Förlag: Cornell University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf: 8 black & white halftones 8
Illustrationer: 8 Halftones, black and white
Dimensioner: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
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Komponenter: 411:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Gray Cloth w/Jacket on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN: 9781501703188

The Power of Systems

Name: The Power of Systems
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Author: Egl Rindzeviit
ISBN: 9781501703188

How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World

av Egl Rindzeviit

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016-12-15

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In The Power of Systems, Egl Rindzeviit introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War divide could work together to articulate and solve world problems. This think tank was a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation, where leading Soviet scientists could try out their innovative ideas, benefit from access to Western literature, and develop social networks, thus paving the way for some of the key science and policy breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Ambitious diplomatic, scientific, and organizational strategies were employed to make this arena for cooperation work for global change. Under the umbrella of the systems approach, East-West scientists co-produced computer simulations of the long-term world future and the anthropogenic impact on the environment, using global modeling to explore the possible effects of climate change and nuclear winter. Their concern with global issues also became a vehicle for transformation inside the Soviet Union. The book shows how computer modeling, cybernetics, and the systems approach challenged Soviet governance by undermining the linear notions of control on which Soviet governance was based and creating new objects and techniques of government.

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The Power of Systems is a first-rate monograph, best suited for graduate students, scholars of Soviet Russia and the Cold War, and scholars of the history and sociology of science. * American Historical Review * Combining a policy analyst's sensitivity to practical politics and a historian's instinct for contingency and context.... Rindzeviit has provided a rare glimpse through the lens of boutique institutional history of a time and place. * SLAVIC REVIEW * The Power of Systems is a masterful study of a complex network of institutions and individualsmany of which were previously unregistered in the Anglo-American historiographythat made the international science of systems analysis possible. * Technology and Culture *

Egl Rindzeviit is a Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, London. She is the author of Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II and coeditor of The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future.