Swans, Elephants, Jellyfish and Rhinos. International Relations and their animals
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https://doi.org/10.14422/cir.i12.y2018.001Keywords:
international relations beasts, black swans, black elephants, black jellyfish, grey rhinosAbstract
Nowadays we are in an accelerated and sustained process of change that is completely different from last century. New issues and great unknowns are frequent today in international relations; furthermore, these relations are changing and are frequently shaken by unforeseen crisis. In these situations two of the more important things are the early identification of risks and the building resilient societies. For this reason, some new tools have emerged to help us to understand these situations and their serious consequences. This paper introduces some imaginary animals that are being used as metaphors by economists, scientists or political analysts to try analyze traumatic events that could arrive.
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