Today globalization can be treated as the most important global process. It is a multi-faceted phenomenon and in every country it has its own image. One can get a truly objective picture of the rapidly changing and integrating world only through a synthesis of all those particular visions. In the present anthology one can find perceptions of globalization by a number of famous scholars from different countries of the world (Ervin Laszlo, Roland Robertson,...(More) Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Randall Collins, Christopher Chase-Dunn, William Thompson and others), but one can also get to know rather peculiar visions of globalization by the Russian scientists.
The volume is entitled Globalistics and Globalization Studies. Globalistics may be regarded as a sort of systemic and more or less integrated ‘core’ within Global Studies. The anthology consists of four parts presenting a wide range of views on the meaning of the contemporary epoch, the past and the future of some important global processes. Part 1. Historical Dimension. Part 2. Globalistics, Global Studies and Models. Part 3. Trends, Risks, and Problems. Part 4. Perspectives and the New World Order.
Contents
Introduction. Globalization, Globalistics and Global Studies(Full text)
Part 1. Historical Dimension
William R. Thompson.The Lead Economy Sequence in World Politics
(From Sung China to the United States): Selected Counterfactuals (Full text)
Andrey V. Korotayev and Leonid E. Grinin. Global Urbanization and Political Development of the World System (Full text)
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, and James Love. Global Cycles of Rise and Fall, Upsweeps and Collapses: Changes in the Scale of Settlements and Polities since the Bronze Age (Full text)
Tatyana L. Shestova. Global History as a Trend of Global Studies (Full text)
Part 2. Globalistics, Global Studies and Models
Ilya V. Ilyin and Arkadi D. Ursul. Globalistics: New Investigative Trends in Science (Full text)
Alexander N. Chumakov. Social Aspects of Globalization (From a Globalistics Viewpoint)(Full text)
Ilya V. Ilyin and Alexey V. Ivanov. Global Processes, Systems and Problems through Globalistics Lens: A Path to a New Synthesis(Full text)
Axel Dreher, Noel Gaston, Pim Martens, and Lotte Van Boxem. Measuring Globalization – Opening the Black Box. A Critical Analysis of Globalization Indices(Full text)
Andrey V. Korotayev. Globalization and Mathematical modeling of Global Development (Full text)
Michael Golosovsky. Hyperbolic Growth of the Human Population of the Earth: Analysis of Existing Models (Full text)
Sergey Yu. Malkov. The Logic of World Development(Full text)
Ilya V. Ilyin and Arkadi D. Ursul. Global Evolutionism: Theoretical and Methodological Problems (Full text)
Part 3. Trends, Risks, and Problems
Randall Collins. Geopolitical Conditions of Internationalism, Human Rights, and World Law (Full text)
Leonid E. Grinin.. State Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization: Will it Survive? (Full text)
William C. Gay. Globalization, the Problem of War, and Normative Issues (Full text)
Andrey V. Korotayev, Julia V. Zinkina, Justislav V. Bogevolnov, and Artemy S. Malkov. Global Unconditional Convergence among Larger Economies after 1998? (Full text)
Alexander S. Rozanov. Combating International Terrorism in the Context of Globalization (Full text)
Оlga G. Leonova. New Geopolitical Trends in the Globalized World (Full text)
Alexander N. Chumakov. Culture in the Global World: Between Dialogue and Conflict(Full text)
Galina A. Drobot. The Issue of Global Governance in the Context of International Relations Theory (Full text)
Vladimir V. Klimenko and Alexey G. Tereshin. World Energy and Climate in the Twenty-First Century in the Context of Historical Trends: Clear Constraints to the Future Growth (Full text)
Part 4. Perspectives and the New World Order
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Contemporary Globalization and New Civilizational Formations (Full text)
Roland Robertson. The ‘Return’ of Religion and the Conflicted Condition of World Order (Full text)
Ervin Laszlo. Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window (Full text)
Valentina M. Bondarenko.Global Processes and Their Dynamics: Two Paradigms of Development (Full text)
Leonid E. Grinin. The Leadership in the Future Global World or Chinese Joker in the World Pack(Full text)
Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev. The Coming Epoch of New Coalitions: Possible Global Scenarios (Full text)
Contributors to the volume
