System Effects读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 328页 | 1998 | Princeton University Press |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 52.50 | 1998-12-28 … | 2023-01-01 … | 84 |
Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories - especially those in political science - are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his point of departure, the author observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequences of our actions are unavoidable and unpredictable, and where the total effect of behavior is not equal to the sum of individual actions. Jervis draws on a wide range of human endeavors to illustrate the nature of these system effects. He shows how increasing airport security might actually cost lives, not save them, and how removing dead trees (ostensibly to give living trees more room) may damage the health of an entire forest. Similarly, he highlights the interconnectedness of the political world as he describes how the Cold War played out and as he narrates the series of events - with their unintended consequences - that escalated into World War I. The ramifications of developing a rigorous understanding of politics are immense, as Jervis demonstrates in his critique of current systemic theories of international politics - especially the influential work done by Kenneth Waltz. Jervis goes on to examine various types of negative and positive feedback, bargaining in different types of relationships, and the polarizing effects of alignments to begin building a foundation for a more realistic, more nuanced, theory of international politics. "System Effects" concludes by examining what it means to act in a system. It shows how political actors might modify their behavior in anticipation of system effects, and it explores how systemic theories of political behavior might account for the role of anticipation and strategy in political action. This work introduces powerful new concepts that will reward not only international relations theorists, but also all social scientists with interests in comparative politics and political theory.
作者简介罗伯特·杰维斯 生于1940年，1968年在加州大学伯克利分校获博士学位，1968-1974年在哈佛大学任教。现为哥伦比亚大学史蒂文森（Adlai E. Stevenson）国际政治学讲座教授，是美国国际关系学界最有影响的学者之一。杰维斯是美国科学促进会和美国艺术与科学院成员，担任过美国政治学会主席。他的著作包括《国际政治中的知觉与错误知觉》（1976年）、《核革命的意义》（1989年）、《系统效应：政治与社会生活中的复杂性》（1997年）和《新时代的美国对外政策》（2005年）等。
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