The upheavals of recent decades show us that traditional models of understanding processes of social and economic change are failing to capture real-world risk and volatility. This has resulted in flawed policy that seeks to capture change in terms of the rise or decline of regimes or regions....

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...

This paper points out that virtually all growth in the global labor force in the coming decades will occur in countries that rank poorly in governance criteria. These countries are likely to face extremely large youth cohorts, but lack the ability to provide the education and attract the...