BASED ON A SAMPLE OF 2,282 LEADERS IN ALL WALKS OF AMERICAN LIFE, THIS STUDY PROBES THE IMPACT OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM ON THE PERCEPTIONS, CONVICTIONS, AND BELIEF SYSTEMS OF THOSE WHO OCCUPY HIGH POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP. RESULTS SHOW MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BELIEF SYSTEMS HAVE EMERGED AND ARE UNLIKELY TO BE SYNTHESIZED IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- PART ONE: ORGANIZED OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER 1 PREVIEWING POSTINTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- CHAPTER 2 JUSTIFYING JAILBREAKS: The Limits of Contemporary Concepts and Methods -- PART TWO: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS -- CHAPTER 3 DELINEATING DISORDER: Chaos, Complexity, and Change -- CHAPTER 4 CONCEPTUALIZING CHANGE: Fluctuations and Transformations -- CHAPTER 5 TRACING TURBULENCE: The History of Three Parameters -- CHAPTER 6 ANALYZING ACTORS: Individuals and Collectivities -- CHAPTER 7 MIXING MICRO-MACRO: The Aggregation of Parts and the Disaggregation of Wholes -- PART THREE: PROBING PARAMETERS -- CHAPTER 8 REVIEWING RELATIONSHIPS: Authority and Its Alternatives -- CHAPTER 9 INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUALS: Roles, Scenarios, Habits, and Learning -- CHAPTER 10 STUDYING STRUCTURES: The Two Worlds of World Politics -- CHAPTER 11 PONDERING PROCESSES: Centralizing and Decentralizing Dynamics -- PART FOUR: TURBULENT TRANSFORMATIONS -- CHAPTER 12 ENHANCED ELITES: Information, Wisdom, and Artificial Intelligence -- CHAPTER 13 POWERFUL PEOPLE: The Expansion of Analytic Skills -- CHAPTER 14 RELATIONSHIPS REVISED: Proliferating Subgroups, Weakened Governments, and Eroded Authority -- CHAPTER 15 NASCENT NORMS: Legitimacy, Patriotism, and Sovereignty -- PART FIVE: SEEKING SOLUTIONS -- CHAPTER 16 BEYOND TURBULENCE: Four Scenarios and a Cyclical Process -- Index
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Preface; Part I: Introduction; I. National Leadership and Foreign Policy: A Derived Model ; Part II The Conferees: A Profile of 647 Opinion-Makers ; Part III: The Conference: Behavioral and Nonbehavioral Reactions; Part IV: Summary and Speculation ; Appendices
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Focusing on two pre-eminent themes in contemporary world politics - globalization and governance - this volume offers a review of current thinking in this subject.
pt. 1.Theoretical Perspectives: Recasting Global Life --Ch. 1.An Emergent Epoch --Ch. 2.People, Collectivities, and Change --Ch. 3.Sources and Consequences of Fragmegration --Ch. 4.Local Worlds --Ch. 5.Global Worlds --Ch. 6.Private Worlds --Ch. 7.Movement among Twelve Worlds --Ch. 8.Emergent Spaces, New Places, and Old Faces: Immigrants and the Proliferation of Identities --pt. 2.Conceptual Equipment: Retooling the Storehouse --Ch. 9.Normative and Complexity Approaches --Ch. 10.The Skill Revolution --Ch. 11.The Information Revolution: Both Powerful and Neutral --Ch. 12.Structures of Authority: In Crisis or in Place? --Ch. 13.Spheres of Authority.
