The (International) System is in a worrying state, as I explain in this article. My research shows that the System produces war-cycles, with remarkable regularity, and that each war-cycle has […]
DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES EXPLAINED: PART 3, MODERN THERMODYNAMICS
In this series of five posts, I explain the workings and implications of dissipative structures that regulate kinetic activity (wars) in our System. The series consists of five parts and […]
DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES EXPLAINED: PART 2, PATTERNS IN WAR DYNAMICS
In this series of five posts, I explain the workings and implications of dissipative structures that regulate kinetic activity (wars) in our System. The series consists of five parts and […]
DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES EXPLAINED: PART 1, INTRODUCTION
In this series of five posts, I explain the workings and implications of dissipative structures that regulate kinetic activity (wars) in our System. The series consists of five parts and […]
Europe is the product of four war-cycles: “Handle with care”.
Don’t take Europe’s achievements for granted. The process of integration (I refer to as ‘aggregation’ in my research) of the core of the System – that is Europe – and […]
False Assumptions: Strategy is obsolete on delivery
Source featured image: MISSILE DEFENSE PROJECT, “MISSILES OF RUSSIA,” MISSILE THREAT, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, JUNE 14, 2018. Typically, during high-connectivity regimes (HCR’s) of KA/war-cycles – when tensions […]
Dominant Feedback structures determine dynamics
In chapter 29 of the study “On the Thermodynamics of War and Social Evolution“, I discuss feedback structures and how they shape dynamics in the System. During a typical KA/war-cycle, […]
Ecosystem degradation affects our social order
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES) has published an alarming summary of its findings. The report looks at the decline in biodiversity across the globe and […]
KA/war-cycles and the fundamental differences between non-systemic and systemic KA/wars
KA stands for “kinetic activity” of the System, and is equivalent with war. Analysis of war data shows that during the transient period (1480-1945), the System produced four accelerating KA/war-cycles, […]
Eco-terrorism is a matter of time
Eco-terrorism only seems a matter of time. There is always a tendency in systems – including in social systems – to “eradicate” – neutralize – gradients, including entropy-gradients. As discussed […]
