Globalization Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Globalization Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Litchfield Park: Emergent Publications, 2013, ISBN 9781938158087
Edited by Jim Sheffield, Andrey Korotayev, & Leonid Grinin
ISBN 9781938158087
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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.

Contents

Introduction: GLOBALIZATION AS A LINK BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE FUTURE Jim Sheffield, Andrey Korotayev, & Leonid Grinin;

Chapter 1 — THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION Leonid Grinin & Andrey Korotayev;

Chapter 2 — THE LEAD ECONOMY SEQUENCE IN WORLD POLITICS (FROM SUNG CHINA TO THE UNITED STATES): SELECTED COUNTERFACTUALS William R. Thompson;

Chapter 3 — CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF WORLD-SYSTEMS Christopher Chase-Dunn;

Chapter 4 — GEOPOLITICAL CONDITIONS OF INTERNATIONALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND WORLD LAW Randall Collins;

Chapter 5 — CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION AND NEW CIVILIZATIONAL FORMATIONS Shmuel N. Eisenstadt;

Chapter 6 — THE ‘RETURN’ OF RELIGION AND THE CONFLICTED CONDITION OF WORLD ORDER Roland Robertson;

Chapter 7 — CULTURE AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE GLOBAL SYSTEM Ervin Laszlo;

Chapter 8 — MEASURING GLOBALIZATION—OPENING THE BLACK BOX: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF GLOBALIZATION INDICES Axel Dreher, Noel Gaston, Pim Martens, & Lotte Van Boxem;

Chapter 9 — ON FREE TRADE, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE W.T.O. Rafael Reuveny;

Chapter 10 — THE E-WASTE STREAM IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM R. Scott Frey;

Chapter 11 — GREAT POWER POLITICS FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF THE EU’s AND CHINA’S COOPERATION WITH THE CONTINENT Zinsê Mawunou & Chunmei Zhao;

Chapter 12 — CONNECTING LOGISTICS NETWORKS GLOBALLY VIA THE U.N. SINGLE WINDOW CONCEPT Michael Linke;

Chapter 13 — THE RECENT GLOBAL CRISIS UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LONG WAVE THEORY Tessaleno C. Devezas;

Chapter 14 — LOCAL SOLUTIONS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: FACILITATING NATIONAL STRATEGIES IN NEW ZEALAND Jim Sheffield;

Chapter 15 — GLOBAL BIFURCATION: THE DECISION WINDOW Ervin Laszlo;

Chapter 16 — TOMORROW’S TOURIST: FLUID AND SIMPLE IDENTITIES Ian Yeoman;

Chapter 17 — WORLD ENERGY AND CLIMATE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL TRENDS: CLEAR CONSTRAINTS TO FUTURE GROWTH Vladimir V. Klimenko & Alexey G. Tereshin.


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