Contributors to the issue

Martens, Pim

Pim MARTENS is Director of the International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustain-able Development (ICIS), Maastricht University. He holds the chair ‘Sustainable Development’ at Maastricht University, is a research professor of Globalization,...

Korotayev, Andrey

Head and Professor of the Laboratory for Monitoring of Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, as well as a Senior Research Professor at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of...

Grinin, Leonid

Leonid E. Grinin is Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, as well as Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies. His current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, long-term trends and sociocultural evolution (especially of technology), periodization of history, world-systems studies, long-term development of political systems, globalization studies, and economic cycles. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 22 monographs.

Gay, William C.

William C. Gay is Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He specializes in war and peace studies. With T. A. Alekseeva, he published Capitalism with a Hu-man Face, On the Eve of the 21st Century, and Democracy and the Quest for Justice. With Mi-chael...

Gaston, Noel

Noel GASTON is Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Director of the Globalization and Development Center (GDC), Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. He has held academic and visiting appointments at Osaka University, Seoul National University,...

Drener, Axel

Axel DREHER is Professor of Development Economics and International Economics at the Georg-August University Goettingen. He is Affiliated Professor at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Re-search Fellow of CESifo and at IZA. He is Editor of the Review of International...

Pauketat, Timothy R.

University of Illinois

Carneiro, Robert L.

Born in New York City on June 4, 1927, Robert Leonard Carneiro earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology in 1949 from the University of Michigan and his Master’s degree in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1957 from the University of Michigan. ...

Harper, Tony

Antony Harper, a researcher in the general area of applied mathematics to human his-torical processes, also understood as quantitative history and more appropriately, using Peter Turchin's term, as cliodynamics. He is currently associated with both New Trier College and Benedictine...