Dynamics among nations : the evolution of legitimacy and development in modern states

Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Post-Globalization: Complexity in the Governance of a Networked Global Society -- 2 Opening the Doors of Complexity -- 3 Economic Incentives and the Replication of Social Complexity -- 4 Coevolution versus Liberal Internationalism -- 5 Promises and Pitfalls of New Institutional Economics -- 6 Dancing Landscapes: How Interdependency Shapes the Optimization Challenge of Globalization -- 7 Accelerators of "Stateness": System Structure and Network Behavior in the Making of the Modern State -- 8 Democracy's Hybrid Architecture