This Globalizing World

This Globalizing World

Volgograd: ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House, 2015. – 224 pp.
Edited by Alexander N. Chumakov and Leonid E. Grinin
ISBN 978–5–7057–4340–7
информация о книге размещена также на странице Будапештского клуба см. The Club of Budapest
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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.

Contents

Preface (Полный текст) 5

PROLOGUE

Princess Irene of the Netherlands. The Well-Being of the Earth and Our Own Well-Being are One and the Same (Полный текст) 8

Ervin Laszlo. Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window (Полный текст) 11

GLOBAL ORDER AND LEADERSHIP

Roland Robertson. The ‘Return’ of Religion and the Conflicted Condition of World Order (Полный текст) 15

Wali Teymouri. Global Leaders and Cultural Diversity (Полный текст) 23

Alexander N. Chumakov. What Must We Do Confronted with Globalization? (Полный текст) 30

Leonid E. Grinin. Which Global Transformations would the Global Crisis Lead to? (Полный текст) 42

GLOBALIZATION IN THE WEST AND EAST

Tomasz Kamusella. Central Europe from a Linguistic Viewpoint (Полный текст) 67

Petr Blizkovsky. Stakeholders of Economic Governance: European Perspective (Полный текст) 77

Karl-Heinz Pohl. The Chinese and Western Values: Reflections on the Methodology of a Cross-Cultural Dialogue (Полный текст) 95

Leonid E. Grinin. the Tiger and the Dragon: Development Models and Perspectives of India and China (Полный текст) 104

Anastasia V. Mitrofanova. Religious Aspects of International Terrorism (Полный текст) 126

Patrick A. Taran. Globalization, Migration and Labour: Imperatives for a Rights Based Policy (Полный текст) 135

Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. The ‘Ahimsa Factor’: Ecological Non-Violence Process Analysis in China and its Implications for Global Paradigmatic Shifts (Полный текст) 155

REFLECTIONS ON GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL STUDIES

Ervin Laszlo. The Culture of ‘Oneness in Diversity’: A Manifesto (Полный текст) 164

Endre Kiss. A Possible History of Globalization and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (Полный текст) 167

Tom Rockmore. Social Contradiction, Globalization and 9/11 (Полный текст) 174

Peter McCormick. Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Claims, Attitudes and Experiences of Friendship 184 (Полный текст) 184

Alexander N. Chumakov. On the Subject and Boundaries of Global Studies (Полный текст) 193

William C. Gay. Processes of Globalization and the Discipline of Global Studies (Полный текст) 203

Lu Feng. Reflections on the Global Environmental Crisis from Confucian and Ecological Perspectives (Полный текст) 211

Information about previous publications of the articles included in the volume (Полный текст) 218

Contributors to the Volume

Journals related to the study of globalization


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