Contributors to the issue: Historical and Theoretical Aspects

Komlosy, Andrea

University of Vienna

Grinin, Anton L.

Anton L. Grinin, PhD in Biological Sciences, is Senior Research Fellow of the International Center for Education and Social and Humanitarian Studies as well as leading Research of Volgograd Centre for Social Research. His main research interests include Big History, evolution,...

Grinin, Anton L.

Diebolt, Claude

Claude Diebolt is Research Professor in economics (esp. cliometrics) for the French National Agency for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Director of the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), a CNRS institute located at the Univer-sities of Strasbourg and Nancy. He is also...

Diebolt, Claude

Berry, Brian J. L.

Brian J. L. Berry is Academician and Vautrin Lud Laureate and the Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. His full vita and lists of honors, publications, etc., are available at http://brianjlberry.com/

Berry, Brian J. L.

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...

Korotayev, Andrey

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.

Grinin, Leonid

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...

Harper, Tony