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Globalization as evolutionary process : modeling global change
Title
Globalization as evolutionary process : modeling global change / edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson.
ISBN
0415773601 (hbk.)
041577361X (pbk.)
0203937295 (ebk.)
9780415773607 (hbk.)
9780415773614 (pbk.)
9780203937297 (ebk.)
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Physical Description
xx, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon." - T.p. verso.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : a new approach to globalization / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson
Globalization as evolutionary process / George Modelski
The Portuguese as system builders : technological innovation in early globalization / Tessalino Devezas, George Modelski
Measuring long-term processes of political globalization / William R. Thompson
Is globalization self-organizing? / Joachim Karl Rennstich
Theories of long-term change and the future of world political institutions / Fulvio Attinà
Compact mathematical models of world system development : how they can help us to clarify our understanding of globalization processes / Andrey Korotayev
Modeling periodic waves of integration in the Afro-Eurasian world system / Peter Turchin
Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems / Douglas R. White, Laurent Tambayong, Nataša Kejžar
Nature, disease, and globalization : an evolutionary perspective / Dennis Pirages
Globalisation in history and the history of globalisation : the application of a globalisation model to historical research / Catia Antunes
Three globalizing phases of the world system and modernity / Shumpei Kumon, Yasuhide Yamanouchi
Accelerating socio-technological evolution : from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain / Francis Heylighen
The growth of the Internet, long waves and global change / Tessaleno C. Devezas, Harold A. Linstone, Humberto João S. Santos
The value to an evolutionary view to globalizing informatics research : one anthropologist's perspective / David Hakken
Forecasting globalization : the use of international futures (IFs) / Barry B. Hughes
On forecasting globalization using world models / Rafael Reuveny
Evolution, modernization, and globalization : a theoretical and mathematical model / Jürgen Klüver, Christina Klüver
Assessment : what has been learnt? / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson.
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