Publications

Featured Books

Flanagan, T. R,, and Christakis, A. N., (2009). The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning. Information Age Publishing.

Christakis, A. N., with Bausch, K. (2006). How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future in Co-Laboratories of Democracy. Information Age Publishing.

Other Member Books

Banathy, B.H. (1996). Designing Social Systems in a Changing World. New York: Plenum.

Banathy, B.H. (2001). Guided Evolution of Society, New York: Plenum.

Bausch, K. (2001). The Emerging Consensus in Social System Theory, Plenum, N.Y.

Jenlink P. M., and Banathy B. H. (2005). Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation. New York: Springer.

Jones, P.H. (2002). Team Design:  A Practitioner’s Guide to Collaborative Innovation, Philadelphia: Xlibris.

McIntyre-Mills, J. (2006).  Systemic Governance and Accountability: Working and Re-working the Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries. New York: Springer.

Warfield, John N. (1994). A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity Through Systems Design. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

Articles & Reports

  • Christakis, A.N. (2004). A Retrospective Structural Inquiry on the Problematique of the Club of Rome. Philadelphia: Institute for Global Agoras.
  • Christakis, A.N., and Harris, L. (2004). Designing a Trnasnational Indigenous Leaders Interaction in the Context of Globalization: A Wisdom of the People Forum, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, 21, 2511-261.
  • Christakis, A. N., and Brahms, S. (2003). Boundary-Spanning Dialogue for 21st -Century Agoras, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, 20, 371-382.
  • Christakis, A.N. (1996).  “A People Science:  The CogniScope System Approach,”  Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996, pp. 16-19.
  • Christakis, A.N. (1993). “The Inevitability of Demosophia.” In Ioanna Tsivakou (ed.), A Challenge for Systems Thinking: The Aegean Seminar, University of the Aegean Press, Athens, Greece, pp. 187-197.
  • Christakis, A.N. (1988). “The Club of Rome Revisited.” In William J. Reckmeyer (ed.), General Systems, Volume XXXI, New York, NY: International Society for the Systems Sciences, pp. 35-38.
  • Christakis, A.N. (1987). “High Technology Participative Design: The Space-Based Laser.” In John A. Dillon, Jr. (ed.), General Systems, Volume XXX, Louisville, KY: International Society for General Systems Research, pp. 69-75.
  • Christakis, A.N. (1985). “The National Forum on Non industrial Private Forest Lands,” Systems Research 2, pp. 189-199.
  • Christakis, A.N. (1973). “A New Policy Science Paradigm,” Futures, 5, pp. 543-558.
  • Christakis, A.N., Krause, L., and Prabhu,Y. (1988). “Synthesis in a New Age,” Systems Research 5, pp. 107-114.
  • Christakis, A.N., Warfield, J.N., and Keever, D. (1989). “Systems Design: Generic Design Theory and Methodology.” In Michael Decleris (ed.), Systems Governance, Publisher Ant. N. Sakkoylas, Athens-Komotini, Greece, pp. 143-210, (in Greek).
  • Christakis, A.N.,Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Feudtner, C., Geranmayeh, A., and Whitehouse, R.J. (1994). Designing the Good Review Practices, CWA Report FDA-694-1, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N.,Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Feudtner, C., and Whitehouse, R.J. (1995a). Application of the CogniScopeTM System for the Conceptual Design of the AMF Project Plan, CWA Report FDA-195-2, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
    Christakis A.N., Conaway, D. (1995b). Designing the Development of Regulatory Science, CWA Report FDA-395-4, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N., Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Geranmayeh, A., and Snow R.M. (1996). Designing Office of Chief Counsel, CWA Report FDA-895-6, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N., and Bausch, K.C., (2002). Technologue: Technology-Supported Disciplined Dialogue, in Robert, N (ed.) Transformative Power of Dialogue. Elsevier Publishing Co.
  • Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S. and Bronfman, B. Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, World Futures, (forthcoming).
  • Christakis, A.N., and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N., and Dye, K.M. (1999). Collaboration through Communicative Action: Resolving the Systems Dilemma through CogniScopeTM, Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Sciences, Volume 4, Number 1.
  • Christakis, A.N., Dye, K.M., and Post, D. (1999). Partners’ Forum for Designing a Framework for the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N., McDonald, R. and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Forest Service Priority Setting for Fiscal Year 2003, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S, Rudavsky, Shari, and Schwartz, Peter (2002). Collaborative Leadership for Patient Safety for Ambulatory Surgery in the Office Setting, Final Report, CWA LTD., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S. and Bausch, K.C. (2002). A Wisdom of the People Forum: Designing a Transnational Indigenous Leaders Interaction in the Context of Globalization (Co-Laboratory of Democracy), CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Dye, K.M. and Conaway, D.S. (1999). Lessons Learned from Five Years of Application of the CogniScopeTM Approach to the Food and Drug Administration, CWA Ltd. Report, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Dye, K.M., Feudtner, C., Post, D., and Vogt, E.M. (1999). Developing Collaborative Leadership to Reframe the Safe Use of Pharmaceuticals as a National Health Priority, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  • Laouris, Y. 1998. “Citizens’ Contributions to the Political Settlement in Cyprus.” Speech given at Peoples’ Europe 98 Conference, as part of a symposium with special advisor Sir David Haney, London, June 5–7.
  • Laouris, Y. 2000. The double personality of the Cypriot society, available at: www.tech4peace.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=714. Laouris, Y. (2004). Information technology in the service of peace building; The case of Cyprus. World Futures, 60, 67–79.
  • Laouris, Y. (2008). The Law of Requisite Action (in preparation). Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can information and Mobile technologies serve close the gap and accelerate development? World Futures.
  • Laouris, Y. and Christakis, A. (2007). Harnessing collective wisdom at a fraction of the time using Structured Design Process embedded within a virtual communication context. International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies.
  • Laouris, Y. and Michaelides, M. (2007a) What obstacles prevent practical broad-band applications from being produced and exploited? In: Towards an inclusive future Impact and wider potential of information and communication technologies, Editor Roe Patrick. Chapter 7. Available on line at: http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter/inclusive_future/inclusive_future_ch7.htm
  • Laouris, Y. Michaelides, M. and Sapio, B. (2007). What are the obstacles that prevent the wide public from benefiting and participating in the broadband society? Conference Proceedings Cost 298 conference, Moscow 2007. Available on-line at www.cost298.org
  • Laouris, Y. and Christakis, A. (2007). Harnessing collective wisdom at a fraction of the time using Structured Design Process embedded within a virtual communication context. I Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 131-153.
  • Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M,. Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., and Christakis, A. (2008). A roadmap based on evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured design process. Cyprus Review (in preparation).
  • Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M., Damdelen,, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., & Christakis, A. (2009). A systemic evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured dialogic design process. Systemic Practice and Action Research 22(1): 45-75.
  • Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M., Damdelen,, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., & Christakis, A. (2007). A Systemic Evaluation of the State of Affairs Following the Negative Outcome of the Referendum in Cyprus using a Structured Dialogic Design Process. Retrieved at: http://www.futureworldscenter.org/Research/Full%20Papers/RevivingPeaceArticle2007_04_13.pdf
  • Warfield, John N., and A. Roxana Cardenas. A Handbook of Interactive Management. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 2d, 1994.

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