RECOMMENDED READING

Curzon has a neat two-parter up, “Failed States, Part 1:Best And Worst “and” Part 2:How Instability Spreads“.

Steve DeAngelis expands on the innovation/creativity thread ( I’m falling behind!!!) with “The Medici Effect and New Design“

At TCS, James H. Joyner, Jr interviews John Robb about Brave New War .

Complexity and Social Networks Blog offers two good ones, “Social-network sites give businesses ideas for new collaboration” and “Bits, Bullets, and the Modern State“.

Dr. Frans Osinga at DNI – “On Boyd, Bin Laden, and Fourth Generation Warfare as String Theory” (PDF). The good Colonel Osinga is a serious contender for the ultimate mil theory championship with that title.

Scientific American on the neuroscience of irrational economic decision-making and “The Roots Of Punishment“.

Kent’s Imperative on “Politicization and the leak culture“.

That’s it!