ABSTRACT
This chapter institutionally grounds, critically reviews, and developmentally maps the first twenty years (1958–1977) of international relations work on global modeling. It may serve both as an introduction to the literature on global modeling, conceptualized in a way that subsumes the world modeling approach of Jay Forrester and the Meadows, and as a tribute to Harold Guetzkow’s pioneering role in that body of scholarship. Guetzkow’s own work fits such a broader, yet more modest conception of internationally oriented simulation research. An evolutionary, institutional approach to the sociology of global modeling research activities is often neglected in substantive literature reviews, e.g., my own previous efforts (Alker, Deutsch, and Markovits 1977; Alker and Tickner, 1977). 1
