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AbstractAs an economic system grows and develops, several key processes occur. Growth means greater population and larger markets, allowing the economy to diversify. Economic development leads to improvements in infrastructure, including transportation networks, which facilitate trade and encourage specialization.In this paper we examine the effects of economic evolution on the structure of 22 national economies, with particular emphasis on their levels of industrial diversification, and how this process affects the international economic system.Our results show a clear tendency for a nation's specialization to decrease over time as development occurs, but only up to a point. The degree of specialization falls more slowly over time in virtually every case, with specialization tending to increase again in several of the most developed economies. Greater specialization means greater interdependence; increasingly, a change in a distant economy has effects in seemingly unrelated places due to these interconnections. A key consequence of this is an increasing need to take a systems approach in economic analysis.

When you transcend the reductionism of both genocentrism and cultural theories that bracket human being from its species origins and biological character, a reciprocal movement between the findings of refined experience and biological research becomes available. Drawing upon recent work in dynamic theories of evolution that respect the human achievements of meaning, freedom, consciousness, and creativity, this essay explores how those findings can inform our understandings and practices of freedom, and vice versa. Along the way, it criticizes the critique of genocentrism pursued by Thomas Nagel, contending that it ignores "teleodynamism" in favor of teleological finalism.

From mitochondria to meerkats, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of social behaviour. Jonathan Birch explores how the three key explanatory ideas of social evolution theory - Hamilton's rule, kin selection, and inclusive fitness - can illuminate our understanding of the social world

Discusses the implications of RMA for arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament; some focus on US military and intelligence use of information technology; 4 articles. Text in both English and French. Contents: The implications of the revolution in military affairs for arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, by Michael Clarke; Is arms control soluble in the revolution in military affairs? by Thérèse Delpech; RMA and nuclear weapons--a calamitous link for arms control, by Harald Müller, Niklas Schörnig; The revolution in military affairs and the "capabilities race", by Saïda Bédar. Parallel title: (R)évolution dans les affaires militaires.