Understanding Global Interdependency to Promote International Prosperity

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Global interdependency and the speed at which goods, services, technology, ideas, information, people, disease and even mood travel across the planet is increasing at a scale and degree far beyond historical experience.

The international security ramifications of this escalating interdependency cannot be controlled without strategic policies that address the combined economic, social and governmental processes that structure the flow of goods and services and ensure international prosperity.

Background

In their National Strategic Narrative (April, 2011), Captain Wayne Porter (US Navy) and Colonel Mark Mykleby (US Marine Corps) articulate the crucial importance of these deeply-connected global systems to our national security. Designed to address just these sorts of questions, CASoS Engineering modeling and analysis provide essential analytical underpinnings and the tools that support policy decision.

 

Publications

• Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems (CASoS) Engineering and Foundations for Global Design, Glass RJ, Beyeler WE, Ames AL, Brown TJ, Maffitt SL, Brodsky NS, Finley PD, Moore TW, Mitchell MD, Linebarger JM, January 2012 (2012-0675)

• William J. Perry International Security Fellowship Research Prospectus, Glass RJ, June 2011

• Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Workshop on Risk-Informed Decision Making, April 2009, Shirlington, VA

• Global Finance as a Complex Adaptive System, WE Beyeler (invited presentation)

• A General Engineering Framework for the Definition, Design, Testing and Actualization of Solutions within Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems (CASoS) with Application to the Global Energy System (GES), Robert J. Glass, Arlo L. Ames, Walter E. Beyeler, Bernard Zak, David A. Schoenwald, Sean A. McKenna, Stephen H. Conrad, S. Louise Maffitt, Sandia National Laboratories, December 2008 (2008-7952)

• CASoS Applications: Global Energy Systems(GES)