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Early Warning Signs for Critical Transitions

Professor Marten Scheffer discusses how to identify when a critical threshold is approaching.

WICI Occasional Paper

A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order
By Michael Lawrence

This paper develops a complex systems analysis of the drug war in Mexico. While other accounts stress the chaotic turmoil of the conflict, this approach begins by examining the relationship between the violence and the formation of order.