Globalistics and Globalization Studies
Publisher: Uchitel Publishing House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Volgograd, Russia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9785705731671
Description: 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, 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.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Introduction. Globalization, Globalistics and Global Studies; title: Part 1. Historical Dimension; title: William R. Thompson.The Lead Economy Sequence in World Politics; title: (From Sung China to the United States): Selected Counterfactuals; title: Andrey V. Korotayev and Leonid E. Grinin. Global Urbanization and Political Development of the World System; title: 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; title: Tatyana L. Shestova. Global History as a Trend of Global Studies; title: Part 2. Globalistics, Global Studies and Models; title: Ilya V. Ilyin and Arkadi D. Ursul. Globalistics: New Investigative Trends in Science; title: Alexander N. Chumakov. Social Aspects of Globalization (From a Globalistics Viewpoint); title: Ilya V. Ilyin and Alexey V. Ivanov. Global Processes, Systems and Problems through Globalistics Lens: A Path to a New Synthesis; title: Axel Dreher, Noel Gaston, Pim Martens, and Lotte Van Boxem. Measuring Globalization – Opening the Black Box. A Critical Analysis of Globalization Indices; title: Andrey V. Korotayev. Globalization and Mathematical modeling of Global Development; title: Michael Golosovsky. Hyperbolic Growth of the Human Population of the Earth: Analysis of Existing Models; title: Sergey Yu. Malkov. The Logic of World Development; title: Ilya V. Ilyin and Arkadi D. Ursul. Global Evolutionism: Theoretical and Methodological Problems