Comprehending the Complexity of Countries: The Way Ahead

This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research  based on the science of complex and dynamic systems. It provides an  in-depth discussion of systems and computer science, concluding that  proper understanding of a country is only possible if a genuinely  interdisciplinary and truly international approach is taken; one that is  based on complexity science and supported by computer science. Country  studies should be carefully designed and collaboratively carried out,  and a new generation of country students should pay more attention to  the fast growing potential of digitized and electronically connected  libraries. In this frenzied age of globalization, foreign policy makers  may – to the benefit of a better world – profit from the radically new  country studies pleaded for in the book. Its author emphasizes that  reductionism and holism are not antagonistic but complementary, arguing  that parts are always parts of a whole and a whole has always parts.