Revised versions of papers originally presented at conference held Dec. 1998, Indiana University, Bloomington, index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Evolutionary world politics : problems of scope and method / George Modelski -- Evolutionary world politics enriched : the biological foundationsof international relations / Vincent S.E. Falger -- Obstacles to an evolutionary global politics research program / David P. Rapkin -- Evolutionary tendencies in realist and liberal IR theory / Jennifer Sterling-Folker -- Answers from evolutionary theory, learning, and social adaptation / Hendrik Spruyt -- The evolution of international norms : choice, learning, power, and identity / Stewart Patrick -- Evolution in domestic politics and the development of rivalry : the Bolivia-Paraguay case / Paul R. Hensel -- Expectancy theory, strategic rivalry deescalation, and the evolution of the Sino-Soviet case / William R. Thompson -- Political shocks and the deescalation of protracted conflicts : the Israeli-Palestinian case / Karen A. Rasler -- Egalitarian social movements and new world orders / Craig N. Murphy -- Technological capacity as fitness : an evolutionary model of change in the international political economy / Sangbae Kim and Jeffrey A. Hart -- Continuity versus evolutionary shift : global financial expansion and the state / Brian M. Pollins.
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