Emerging Risks in a World of Heterogeneity

Part I. Size

1. Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System
Masayuki Tadokoro

2. Effects of the Size of a Country on Its Economic Performance
Kazuhiro Yuki, Zhiwei Cen

Part II. Political Regimes and Social Structure

3. Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a Heterogeneous World: Computer Simulation and Evolutionary Dynamics
Makoto Sejima

4. The Superficial Success of the Development Assistance Committee: Emerging Donors and the Revival of Economic Statecraft
Hiroko Ogawa

5. How Structural Heterogeneities Turned into Political Issues: Lessons from the US–Japan Structural Talks
Kazutoshi Suzuki

Part III. Inside a State

6. Role of Third-Party Guarantors in Uncertainty of Preventive Civil War: Can Thucydides Trap Be Resolved?
Kaoru Ishiguro, Kazuya Yamamoto

7. Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: The Effect of Information Stimulus on Levels of Support for Foreign Aid and Coalition Withdrawal
Yoshitaka Komiya, Mari Miyagawa, Atsushi Tago

Part IV. Interactions Between the International System, Domestic Society, and Individuals

8. Agent-Based Simulation as a Method for International Political Science: A Way of Expressing Diversity
Susumu Egashira

9. Considering Provision of Global Public Goods with Community Task Game: A Multi-agent Simulation Analysis
Takashi Hashimoto, Hiroaki Yamada

Keywords: Economics, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, International Economics, International Relations, Political Economy/Economic Policy