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Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes: Dialectics of Peace, Climate, Finance, and Health
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The book focuses on four kinds of crises – climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These catastrophes are conceived as complex and prone to cascade effects. This book is optimistic in explaining that there are simple institutions that society can strengthen and some simple principles that can help humankind to control the expansion of complex catastrophes that confront the planet including simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies. It draws on a wide range of current and past crises and challenges, from the Cold War to COVID-19, and from Weapons of Mass Destruction to restorative diplomacy with States like China, to provide an urgent and timely path forward.
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This book optimistically explains why simple institutions and principles societies can strengthen to help humankind control complex catastrophes that endanger the planet. The author argues that improved peacemaking, and step by step progress toward abolition of Weapons of Mass Destruction helps prevent environmental, pandemic, and financial catastrophes. It speaks to those interested in criminology, public policy and international relations, political science, sociology, public health and economics.
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