ISBN:
0415773601
,
041577361X
,
0203937295
,
9780415773607
,
9780415773614
,
9780203937297
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 444 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Rethinking globalizations v. 10
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization as Evolutionary Process : Modeling Global Change
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Globalization History
;
Globalization Forecasting
;
Globalization
Abstract:
This book brings together leading international experts on world politics, history and the social sciences to develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Foreword; 1 Introduction: A new approach to globalization; Part I: Evolutionary models; 2 Globalization as evolutionary process; 3 The Portuguese as system-builders: Technological innovation in early globalization; 4 Measuring long-term processes of political globalization; 5 Is globalization self-organizing?; 6 Theories of long-term change and the future of world political institutions; Part II: Models of long-term change
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Compact mathematical models of world-system development: How they can help us to clarify our understanding of globalization processes8 Modeling periodic waves of integration in the Afro-Eurasian world-system; 9 Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems; 10 Nature, disease, and globalization: An evolutionary perspective; 11 Globalisation in history and the history of globalisation: The application of a globalisation model to historical research; Part III: Global change and the information age; 12 Three globalizing phases of the world system and modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Accelerating socio-technological evolution: From ephemeralization and stigmergy to the Global Brain14 The growth of the Internet, long waves, and global change; 15 The value of an evolutionary view to globalizing Informatics research: One anthropologist's perspective; Part IV: Forecasting and simulating globalization; 16 Forecasting globalization: The use of International Futures (IFs); 17 On forecasting globalization using world models; 18 Evolution, modernization, and globalization: A theoretical and mathematical model; Part V: Assessment; 19 Assessment: What have we learnt?; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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