Qualitative models may help us to recognize similarities among patterns in society and politics. Quantitative models, usually in mathemati cal form, help us to recognize general trends and directions of change. The conditions for this construction of large-scale world models developed between 1960 and 1975. Thus far, about three dozen world models have been built. By way of illustration, one of the most recently finished models, GLOBUS, developed at the Science Center in Berlin, is discussed to show how it could be further developed in order to enhance our understanding of the complexity of global processes and their dynamics.
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