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Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this
edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has
undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the
original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and
understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book
highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a
new critical milestone, moving into a fundamentally new phase of
historical development, when the old economic and social
technologies no longer work as efficiently as before or even begin
to function counterproductively, which leads the World System into
a systemic crisis. The book discusses the transition of
human society to a new phase state, the shape of which has not yet
been determined. New approaches are needed for both, for the
analysis of the global situation, and for forecasts. The book is
based on an integrated approach including the world-systems,
historical and evolutionary perspectives, as well as a systematic
view of society, in which changes in one subsystem cause
transformations in others. Through mathematical modeling, it
defines the main vectors of transformations of the World System;
makes a detailed forecast of the development of all the main
subsystems of the society and the World System, while presenting
horizons of changes from short-term to ultra-long-term; and
presents different development scenarios as well as recommendations
on how to achieve a transition to the most favorable
scenario. The book will appeal to members and followers of
the Club of Rome, policy-makers, as well as to scholars from
various disciplines interested in a better understanding of the
World System evolution, global futures, development studies,
climate change, and future societies.Â
This book provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion patterns
among Muslims, particularly in the Arab world. On the basis of data
from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the
Arab Opinion Index, it compares the dynamics of Muslim opinion
structures with global publics and arrives at social scientific
predictions of value changes in the region. Using country factor
scores from a variety of surveys, it also develops composite
indices of support for democracy and a liberal society on a global
level and in the Muslim world, and analyzes a multivariate model of
opinion structures in the Arab world, based on over 40 variables
from 12 countries in the Arab League and covering 67% of the total
population of the Arab countries. While being optimistic about the
general, long-term trend towards democracy and the resilience of
Arab and Muslim civil society to Islamism, the book also highlights
anti-Semitic trends in the region and discusses them in the larger
context of xenophobia in traditional societies. In light of the
current global confrontation with radical Islamism, this book
provides vital material for policy planners, academics and think
tanks alike.
This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and
short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression,
plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major
research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify
evolving relationships between the global center and its periphery
as well as current worldwide economic upheavals and potential
future developments. Central to this survey are successive waves of
industrial and, later, technological and cybernetic progress,
leading to the current era of globalization and the changes of the
roles of both Western powers and former minors players, however
that will lead to the formation of the world order without a
hegemon. Additionally, the authors predict what they term the Great
Convergence, the lessening of inequities between the global core
and the rest of the world, including the wealth gap between First
and Third World nations. Among the topics in this ambitious volume:
* Why politics is often omitted from economic analysis. * Why
economic cycles are crucial to understanding the modern
geopolitical landscape. * How the aging of the developed world will
affect world technological and economic future.<
* The evolving technological forecast for Global North and South.
* Where the U.S. is likely to stand on the future world stage.
Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery will inspire
discussion and debate among sociologists, global economists,
demographers, global historians, and futurologists. This expert
knowledge is necessary for further research, proactive response,
and preparedness for a new age of sociopolitical change.
This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based
story in the context of Big History. Departing from the traditional
historic discourse, in which communities, cities, and states serve
as the main units of analysis, the authors instead trace the
historical emergence, growth, interconnection, and merging of
various types of networks that have gradually encompassed the
globe. They also focus on the development of certain ideas,
processes, institutions, and phenomena that spread through those
networks to become truly global. The book specifies five
macro-periods in the history of globalization and comprehensively
covers the first four, from roughly the 9th - 7th millennia BC to
World War I. For each period, it identifies the most important
network-related developments that facilitated (or even spurred on)
such transitions and had the greatest impacts on the history of
globalization. By analyzing the world system's transition to new
levels of complexity and connectivity, the book provides valuable
insights into the course of Big History and the evolution of human
societies.
This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly
contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing
economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great
Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European
nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical
context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful
Great Convergence, the recent economic and technological expansion
taking place in Third World nations and characterized by narrowing
inequity among nations. They are seen here as two phases of an
inevitable global process, centuries in the making, with the
potential for both positive and negative results. This
sophisticated presentation examines: Why the developing world is
growing more rapidly than the developed world. How this development
began occurring under the Western world's radar. How former
colonies of major powers grew to drive the world's economy. Why so
many Western economists have been slow to recognize the Great
Convergence. The increasing risk of geopolitical instability. Why
the world is likely to find itself without an absolute leader after
the end of the American hegemony A work of rare scope, Great
Divergence and Great Convergence gives sociologists, global
economists, demographers, and global historians a deeper
understanding of the broader movement of social and economic
history, combined with a long view of history as it is currently
being made; it also offers some thrilling forecasts for global
development in the forthcoming decades.
The 21st century has witnessed a considerable and increasing number
of political revolutions around the world. This contradicts the
popular belief of many experts in the 1970s that revolutions
occurred mainly in monarchies and empires. Instead, the revolutions
of this century have several new characteristics, which call for a
renewed analysis of the subject. This handbook offers a comparative
perspective on the new wave of revolutions of the last decade.
Presenting case studies on the color revolutions, the Arab
revolutions of 2010–2011, and the global wave of revolutions in
2013–2018 that spanned regions ranging from Africa to the
Caucasus, it offers a better understanding of the varied forms,
features, and historical backgrounds of revolutions, as well as
their causes. Accordingly, it highlights recent revolutions in
their historical and world-systems contexts. The handbook is
divided into seven parts, the first of which examines the history
of views on revolution and important aspects of the theory of
revolution. The second part analyzes revolutions within long-term
historical trends and in their world-system contexts. In turn, the
third part explores specific major revolutionary waves in history.
The fourth part analyzes the first revolutionary wave of the 21st
century (2000–2009), the so-called color revolutions, while the
fifth discusses the second wave – the Arab Spring (2010–2013)
– as an important turning point. The sixth part is dedicated to
analyzing revolutions and revolutionary movements beyond the Arab
Spring and some revolutionary events from the third wave that began
in 2018. The seventh and final part offers forecasts on the future
of revolutions. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars
and students from various disciplines interested in historical
trends, sociopolitical change, contentious politics, social
movements, and revolutionary processes involving both nonviolent
campaigns and political violence. ​"Once again, this volume
demonstrates the kind of open-minded, systematic analysis that the
field of revolutionary studies requires." (Prof. George
Lawson, Department of International
Relations, Australian National University Canberra)
This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and
short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression,
plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major
research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify
evolving relationships between the global center and its periphery
as well as current worldwide economic upheavals and potential
future developments. Central to this survey are successive waves of
industrial and, later, technological and cybernetic progress,
leading to the current era of globalization and the changes of the
roles of both Western powers and former minors players, however
that will lead to the formation of the world order without a
hegemon. Additionally, the authors predict what they term the Great
Convergence, the lessening of inequities between the global core
and the rest of the world, including the wealth gap between First
and Third World nations. Among the topics in this ambitious volume:
* Why politics is often omitted from economic analysis. * Why
economic cycles are crucial to understanding the modern
geopolitical landscape. * How the aging of the developed world will
affect world technological and economic future.<
* The evolving technological forecast for Global North and South.
* Where the U.S. is likely to stand on the future world stage.
Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery will inspire
discussion and debate among sociologists, global economists,
demographers, global historians, and futurologists. This expert
knowledge is necessary for further research, proactive response,
and preparedness for a new age of sociopolitical change.
The 21st century has witnessed a considerable and increasing number
of political revolutions around the world. This contradicts the
popular belief of many experts in the 1970s that revolutions
occurred mainly in monarchies and empires. Instead, the revolutions
of this century have several new characteristics, which call for a
renewed analysis of the subject. This handbook offers a comparative
perspective on the new wave of revolutions of the last decade.
Presenting case studies on the color revolutions, the Arab
revolutions of 2010-2011, and the global wave of revolutions in
2013-2018 that spanned regions ranging from Africa to the Caucasus,
it offers a better understanding of the varied forms, features, and
historical backgrounds of revolutions, as well as their causes.
Accordingly, it highlights recent revolutions in their historical
and world-systems contexts. The handbook is divided into seven
parts, the first of which examines the history of views on
revolution and important aspects of the theory of revolution. The
second part analyzes revolutions within long-term historical trends
and in their world-system contexts. In turn, the third part
explores specific major revolutionary waves in history. The fourth
part analyzes the first revolutionary wave of the 21st century
(2000-2009), the so-called color revolutions, while the fifth
discusses the second wave - the Arab Spring (2010-2013) - as an
important turning point. The sixth part is dedicated to analyzing
revolutions and revolutionary movements beyond the Arab Spring and
some revolutionary events from the third wave that began in 2018.
The seventh and final part offers forecasts on the future of
revolutions. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars and
students from various disciplines interested in historical trends,
sociopolitical change, contentious politics, social movements, and
revolutionary processes involving both nonviolent campaigns and
political violence. "Once again, this volume demonstrates the kind
of open-minded, systematic analysis that the field of revolutionary
studies requires." (Prof. George Lawson, Department of
International Relations, Australian National University Canberra)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion patterns
among Muslims, particularly in the Arab world. On the basis of data
from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the
Arab Opinion Index, it compares the dynamics of Muslim opinion
structures with global publics and arrives at social scientific
predictions of value changes in the region. Using country factor
scores from a variety of surveys, it also develops composite
indices of support for democracy and a liberal society on a global
level and in the Muslim world, and analyzes a multivariate model of
opinion structures in the Arab world, based on over 40 variables
from 12 countries in the Arab League and covering 67% of the total
population of the Arab countries. While being optimistic about the
general, long-term trend towards democracy and the resilience of
Arab and Muslim civil society to Islamism, the book also highlights
anti-Semitic trends in the region and discusses them in the larger
context of xenophobia in traditional societies. In light of the
current global confrontation with radical Islamism, this book
provides vital material for policy planners, academics and think
tanks alike.
The monograph is devoted to the problems of origins, development
and present condition of statehood. It also provides forecasts of
political development in the coming decades. The book presents a
new approach to the causes and models of the emergence of state and
competing with it political forms (early state analogues) and new
models of state evolution. Today in full swing are the processes of
state's nature and functions change and countries' integration into
supranational communities. In the last chapter there are explained
reasons of the inexplicable, at first glance, phenomenon: why
modern states voluntarily reduce their sovereign prerogatives.
Without analysis of the statehood genesis and development, it is
impossible to understand the course of human history and current
state of World System as well as the possible directions of its
transformation. So we hope the book will interest broad audience,
including specialists in globalization studies, political
anthropology, philosophy, future studies, historical sociology, and
political studies, as well as anyone interested in history and
modern political problems and global trends.
The special character of Globalization: Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow is the inclusion of a broad international and
multicultural spectrum of issues. The approach is systemic.
Political, economic, geographic, ecological, social, cultural,
ethnic, religious and historical processes are analyzed. Single and
joint impacts on globalization and cultural-geographic regions are
discussed. Globalization: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow explores
the idea that both human history and globalization provide a bridge
between the past and the future.
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