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This Globalizing WorldVolgograd: ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House, 2015. – 224 pp.
Edited by Alexander N. Chumakov and Leonid E. Grinin
ISBN 978–5–7057–4340–7 Information about the book can also be found at the website of the Club of Budapest |
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)
PROLOGUE
Princess Irene of the Netherlands. The Well-Being of the Earth and Our Own Well-Being are One and the Same (Полный текст)
Ervin Laszlo. Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window (Полный текст)
GLOBAL ORDER AND LEADERSHIP
Roland Robertson. The ‘Return’ of Religion and the Conflicted Condition of World Order (Полный текст)
Wali Teymouri. Global Leaders and Cultural Diversity (Полный текст)
Alexander N. Chumakov. What Must We Do Confronted with Globalization? (Полный текст)
Leonid E. Grinin. Which Global Transformations would the Global Crisis Lead to? (Полный текст)
GLOBALIZATION IN THE WEST AND EAST
Tomasz Kamusella. Central Europe from a Linguistic Viewpoint (Полный текст)
Petr Blizkovsky. Stakeholders of Economic Governance: European Perspective (Полный текст)
Karl-Heinz Pohl. The Chinese and Western Values: Reflections on the Methodology of a Cross-Cultural Dialogue (Полный текст)
Leonid E. Grinin. the Tiger and the Dragon: Development Models and Perspectives of India and China (Полный текст)
Anastasia V. Mitrofanova. Religious Aspects of International Terrorism (Полный текст)
Patrick A. Taran. Globalization, Migration and Labour: Imperatives for a Rights Based Policy (Полный текст)
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)
REFLECTIONS ON GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL STUDIES
Ervin Laszlo. The Culture of ‘Oneness in Diversity’: A Manifesto (Полный текст)
Endre Kiss. A Possible History of Globalization and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (Полный текст)
Tom Rockmore. Social Contradiction, Globalization and 9/11 (Полный текст)
Peter McCormick. Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Claims, Attitudes and Experiences of Friendship 184 (Полный текст)
Alexander N. Chumakov. On the Subject and Boundaries of Global Studies (Полный текст)
William C. Gay. Processes of Globalization and the Discipline of Global Studies (Полный текст)
Lu Feng. Reflections on the Global Environmental Crisis from Confucian and Ecological Perspectives (Полный текст)
Information about previous publications of the articles included in the volume (Полный текст)
Contributors to the Volume
Journals related to the study of globalization
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