This Globalizing Word
Publisher: Uchitel Publishing House
Published: 2015
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9785705743407
Description: Despite the increasing flow of publications on globalization, our ideas and knowledge about this phenomenon still leave much to be desired. That is why the special periodicals and books in the field of Global Studies are of utmost importance for modern society. Of great importance are also the books which accumulate the last achievements of scientific thought in the field of Global Studies. The present edited volume is just the book of the kind. Its title, This Globalizing World, reflects the main idea of the formation of a new World System. This book comprises the best articles which have been published in the interdisciplinary journals Age
of Globalization (published in Russian), its English-language digest, as well as in the Journal of Globalization Studies. The articles included in the volume reflect the today's pressing issues, and they also present a number of forecasts for the nearest future and for the more distant periods of the global development as well. In the present volume one can find the perceptions of globalization by a number of scholars from different countries, whose articles have been published in the mentioned journals.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: PROLOGUE; title: The Well-Being of the Earth and Our Own Well-Being are One and the Same
label: Princess Irene of the Netherlands.; title: Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window
label: Ervin Laszlo.; title: GLOBAL ORDER AND LEADERSHIP; title: The ‘Return’ of Religion and the Conflicted Condition of World Order
label: Roland Robertson.; title: Global Leaders and Cultural Diversity
label: Wali Teymouri.; title: What Must We Do Confronted with Globalization?
label: Alexander N. Chumakov.; title: Which Global Transformations would the Global Crisis Lead to?
label: Leonid E. Grinin.; title: GLOBALIZATION IN THE WEST AND EAST; title: Central Europe from a Linguistic Viewpoint
label: Tomasz Kamusella.; title: Stakeholders of Economic Governance: European Perspective
label: Petr Blizkovsky.; title: The Chinese and Western Values: Reflections on the Methodology of a Cross-Cultural Dialogue
label: Karl-Heinz Pohl.; title: the Tiger and the Dragon: Development Models and Perspectives of India and China
label: Leonid E. Grinin.; title: Religious Aspects of International Terrorism
label: Anastasia V. Mitrofanova.; title: Globalization, Migration and Labour: Imperatives for a Rights Based Policy
label: Patrick A. Taran.; title: Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. The ‘Ahimsa Factor’: Ecological Non-Violence Process Analysis in China and its Implications for Global Paradigmatic Shifts
label: Michael Charles; title: REFLECTIONS ON GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL STUDIES; title: The Culture of ‘Oneness in Diversity’: A Manifesto
label: Ervin Laszlo.; title: A Possible History of Globalization and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
label: Endre Kiss.; title: Social Contradiction, Globalization and 9/11
label: Tom Rockmore.; title: Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Claims, Attitudes and Experiences of Friendship 184
label: Peter McCormick.; title: On the Subject and Boundaries of Global Studies
label: Alexander N. Chumakov.; title: Processes of Globalization and the Discipline of Global Studies
label: William C. Gay.; title: Reflections on the Global Environmental Crisis from Confucian and Ecological Perspectives
label: Lu Feng.; title: Information about previous publications of the articles included in the volume; title: Contributors to the Volume; title: Journals related to the study of globalization