Globalization as evolutionary process
Subtitle: modeling global change
By: edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson.
Contributors: Modelski, George.; Devezas, Tessaleno C.; Thompson, William R.
Series: Rethinking globalizations -- 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780415773607; 9780415773614; 9780203937297
Subjects: Globalization; Globalization -- History; Globalization -- Forecasting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a new approach to globalization / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson; title: Globalization as evolutionary process / George Modelski; title: The Portuguese as system builders : technological innovation in early globalization / Tessalino Devezas and George Modelski; title: Modeling long-term processes of political globalization / William R. Thompson; title: Is globalization self-organizing? / Joachim Karl Rennstich; title: Theories of long-term change and the future of world political institutions / Fulvio Attina; title: Compact mathematical models of world system development, and how they can help us to clarify our understanding of globalization processes / Andrey Korotayev; title: Modeling periodic waves of integration in the Afroeurasian world system / Peter Turchin; title: Discovering oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems / Douglas R. White, Natasa Kejzar, and Laurent Tambayong; title: Nature, disease, and globalization : an evolutionary perspective / Dennis Pirages; title: Globalization in history and the history of globalization : the application of a globalization model to historical research / Catia Antunes; title: Three globalizing phases of the world system and modernity / Shumpei Kumon and Yasuhide Yamanouchi; title: Accelerating socio-technological evolution : from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain / Francis Heylighen; title: Growth of the internet, long waves and global change / Tessaleno C. Devezas, Harold A. Linstone, Humberto J. S. Santos; title: The value to globalizing informatics research of an evolutionary view : one anthropologist's perspective / David Hakken; title: Forecasting globalization : the use of international futures (Ifs) / Barry Hughes; title: Forecasting globalization using world models / Rafael Reuveny; title: Evolution, modernization and globalization : computer-based analysis of social complexity / Jurgen Kluver and Christina Kluver; title: Assessment : what has been learnt? / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson.