The Power of SystemsIn The Power of Systems, Egl Rindzeviit introduces readers to one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U. S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War divide could work together to