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The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World: Amazon.co.uk: Rindzeviciute, Egle: 9781501703188: Books
Review
The Power of Systems is a first-rate monograph, best suited for graduate students, scholars of Soviet Russia and the Cold War, and scholars of the history and sociology of science.
? American Historical Review
Combining a policy analyst's sensitivity to practical politics and a historian's instinct for contingency and context.... Rindzeviciute has provided a rare glimpse through the lens of boutique institutional history of a time and place.
? SLAVIC REVIEW
The Power of Systems is a masterful study of a complex network of institutions and individuals?many of which were previously unregistered in the Anglo-American historiography?that made the international science of systems analysis possible.
? Technology and Culture
Review
In this deeply researched book, Egle Rindzeviciute tells the story of a unique Cold War institution, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, located in Laxenburg, Austria. Here scientists and political leaders from the Soviet Union and the United States met in the years after 1972 to discuss, in the framework of the new field of systems analysis, such problems as acid rain, nuclear winter, the impact of technology on society, and the possibility of 'neutral' mathematical modeling of civilization’s problems. Was it a naïve and doomed effort? Rindzeviciute gives us a sophisticated answer to this question.
-- Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-author of Science in the New Russia
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