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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009
These two books should be welcomed enthusiastically by the international relations community. They describe economically the work done in two important and related fields with which scholars of international relations, no matter what their speciality, should be acquainted. This judgement may not, of course, be accepted by everyone, but I hope this review article will provide reasons in support of it. For even if one concludes (as I do not) that the approaches of these books are wrong, they are interestingly wrong.
1. There are two people called Meadows involved in the project, Dennis L. and Donella H. Donella H. is the co-author of the book reviewed.
2. I discuss some of the issues in detail in Michael Nicholson, ‘Games and Simulation’, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, 1980. See also Nicholson, Michael, The Scientific Analysis of Social Behaviour: A defence of empiricism in social science (London, 1983).Google Scholar
3. Lakatos, Imre, ‘The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes’ in Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, Criticisms and the Growth of Knowledge (Cambridge, 1970).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4. Nicholson, op. cit. (1983).
5. A view confirmed by the papers collected earlier in Deutsch, K. W., Fritsh, B., Jaguaribe, H. and Markovits, A., Problems of the World Modelling: Politicaland Social Implications (Cambridge, Mass., 1977).Google Scholar