Cosmopolitan Politics: making a case for systemic praxis -- Critiquing Anthropocentricism: implications for rights and responsibility for others -- Beyond State Containerism: Implications for containing capitalism and protecting the environment -- Extending our horizons: Implications for...

Introduction -- Characteristics of Whole Evolutions -- Several Empirical Justifications -- Elementary Properties of Systemic Yoyos -- The State of a Civilization -- Interactions between Civilizations- Turmoil within a Civilization -- Economic Entities Seen as Spinning Systemic Yoyos -- Economic...

Collective behaviors play a fundamental role in many scientific and technical disciplines. This book introduces the concept of Collective Being as a Multiple System established by processes of emergence and self-organization of the same agents simultaneously or dynamically interacting in...

Deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. This book is of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as...

This book provides a fascinating reading experience for anyone interested in an inquiring relationship between technical progress and the quality of the human condition. It manages to keep a healthier balance between these two complex topics than is found in most publications of the genre. The...