“Systems can create consequences not intended by any other of their constituent actors.”
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 2, Origins of the Great Twentieth Century Conflicts, p. 34.
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June 18, 2007, National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan.
Interview by Andrea Di Marcantonio
“Actor-oriented, dynamic systems theories.”
This family of theories -- inspired to a great extent by Buckley -- is largely non-functionalist. It includes Buckley’s (1967, 1998) “modern systems theory,” Archer’s (1995) “morphogenetic” theory, Burns’ “actor-system-dynamics” (also ASD; Burns et al. 1985; Burns and Flam 1987), and the “sociocybernetics” of Geyer and van der Zouwen (1978). Complex, dynamic social systems are analysed in terms of stabilizing and destabilizing mechanisms, with human agents playing strategic roles in these processes. Institutions and cultural formations of society are carried by, transmitted, and reformed through individual and collective actions and interactions.
Source: Systems theories (2006), p. 3.
“Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean”
14 January 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/bush.regrets.ap/index.html
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Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 23
Source: The Haystack Syndrome (1990), p. 23; as cited by: Gerald P. Marquis (2011, p. 10)