ABSTRACT
We should not be dismayed that the global economic crisis and our uncertain exit from it has shaken up received wisdoms. The west has been acting for too long like a deaf prophet, so convinced of its own truths that it does not need to listen. Coming to grips with complexity-with, say, the numerous conceptions around the world of how markets function, or of political legitimacy-can only be a good thing; they are often the fruits of insights and experiences we can learn from. Mark Mazower1
The 21st century brings new rising forces and new configurations. To make sense of the new emerging field requires a reflection on analytics, or else making sense of many diverse developments becomes a jumble. The data are many, contradictory, complex, in flux. They are many-at issue are global and national dynamics; they are contradictory-with diverse and opposite trends; they are complex-patterns crisscross; and in flux-as in market volatility, political instability, and institutional changes.
