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Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World

by Egle Rindzevičiūte
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781501703188
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 306
  • Original Price: USD 145.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 608 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / General

In The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzevičiūte introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established by the US and USSR to advance scientific collaboration.

From 1972 until the late 1980s, IIASA was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War could work together to articulate and solve world problems: a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation.

East-West scientists coproduced computer simulations of the long-term world future, 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 Power of Systems explores 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.

Egle Rindzevičiūte is Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology at Kingston University, London. She is the author of The Will to Predict and coeditor of The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics.

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