TY - BOOK AU - Ramo,Joshua Cooper TI - The age of the unthinkable: why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what we can do about it SN - 9780316118088 AV - 002 E 902 R175a 2009 U1 - 973.931 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company, KW - World politics KW - 21st century KW - Politica mundial KW - Siglo XXI KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 2001-2009 KW - Military policy KW - Estados Unidos KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - 2001- KW - Política militar N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index; Pt. 1: The sandpile effect. The nature of the age ; The old physics ; The sandpile ; Avalanche country ; Budweiser -- Pt. 2: Deep security. Mashup ; The general and the billionaire ; The management secrets of Hizb'allah ; The limits of persuasion ; Riding the earthquake ; The revolution and you N2 - Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order ER -