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andrey , november 2008 korotayev over the rift valley , north tanzania moscow max andre gunder frank , george peter murdock , heinz von weber foerster , ernest gellner , karl popper , ibn khaldun , russian russian university higher school of economics -lrb- moscow -rrb- institute for academy advanced study -lrb- princeton -rrb- russian state university for the of humanities -lrb- moscow -rrb- sciences -lrb- moscow -rrb- national research cross-cultural , and historical dynamics ; islamic and pre-islamic history studies , mathematical modeling of social , economic 17 february 1961 contributions and cross-cultural studies to mathematical modeling of the world system development russia russian economists of the russian academy of sciences '' nomination -lrb- science 2006 -rrb- by the international n. d. kondratieff foundation . support foundation award in `` the best rift valley4.jpg andrey korotayev
 andrey korotayev moscow state university
andrey korotayev

andrey vitalievich korotayev -lrb- ; born february 17 , 1961 -rrb- is a russian anthropologist , economic historian , and sociologist , with major contributions to world-systems theory , cross-cultural studies , near eastern history , big history , and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics .
he is currently the head of the laboratory of monitoring of the risks of sociopolitical destabilization of the national research university higher school of economics , and a senior research professor at the center for big history and system forecasting of the institute of oriental studies -lsb- http://ivran.ru/component/content/article/17-ios-smi/678-ios-smi-september2013 as well as in the institute for african studies of the russian academy of sciences .
in addition , he is a senior research professor of the international laboratory on political demography and social macrodynamics -lrb- pdsm -rrb- of the russian presidential academy of national economy and public administration , -lsb- http://www.ranepa.ru/eng/activities/item/375-demography-conference.html] as well as a full professor of the faculty of global studies of the moscow state university .
he is co-editor of the journals `` social evolution & history '' and `` journal of globalization studies '' , as well as `` history & mathematics '' almanac -lrb- together with leonid grinin and arno tausch -rrb- .
together with askar akayev and george malinetsky he is a coordinator of the russian academy of sciences program `` system analysis and mathematical modeling of world dynamics '' .
