TY - BOOK AU - Cederman,Lars-Erik TI - Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve T2 - Princeton Studies in Complexity SN - 9780691218038 U1 - 327.1/01 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - International relations KW - Philosophy KW - Nation-state KW - Newly independent states KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General KW - bisacsh KW - Barth, Fredrik KW - Bremer, Stuart A KW - Calhoun, Craig KW - European integration KW - Gorbachev, Mikhail KW - Italy KW - Keohane, Robert O KW - Markov process KW - Soviet Union KW - Tilly, Charles KW - agency KW - anarchy KW - assimilation theories KW - bounded rationality KW - causation KW - combat rules KW - decolonization KW - democracy KW - empires KW - federalism KW - game theory KW - hegemonic takeoff KW - historical sociology KW - levels-of-analysis problem KW - logistic function KW - mobilization KW - multinational states KW - nation building KW - nuclear deterrence KW - positive feedback KW - positivism KW - prediction KW - reification KW - secession KW - state formation N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Figures --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Modeling Actors in World Politics --; Chapter 3. Toward Richer Models --; Chapter 4. Emergent Polarity --; Chapter 5. Extending the Emergent Polarity Model --; Chapter 6. Modeling Nationalism --; Chapter 7. Nationalist Mobilization --; Chapter 8. Nationalist Coordination --; Chapter 9. Conclusions for Theory and Policy --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. Lars-Erik Cederman argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing. First, the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state and the nation. Second, traditional theory usually treats these units as fixed. Cederman offers a fresh way of analyzing world politics: complex adaptive systems modeling. He provides a new series of models--not ones that rely on rational-choice, but rather computerized thought-experiments--that separate the state from the nation and incorporate these as emergent rather than preconceived actors. This theory of the emergent actor shifts attention away from the exclusively behavioral focus of conventional international relations theory toward a truly dynamic perspective that treats the actors of world politics as dependent rather than independent variables. Cederman illustrates that while structural realist predictions about unit-level invariance hold up under certain circumstances, they are heavily dependent on fierce power competition, which can result in unipolarity instead of the balance of power. He provides a thorough examination of the processes of nationalist mobilization and coordination in multi-ethnic states. Cederman states that such states' efforts to instill loyalty in their ethnically diverse populations may backfire, and that, moreover, if the revolutionary movement is culturally split, its identity becomes more inclusive as the power gap in the imperial center's favor increases UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691218038?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691218038 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691218038.jpg ER -