Research Catalog

Title

Globalization as evolutionary process : modeling global change / edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Modelski, George.
• Devezas, Tessaleno C.
• Thompson, William R.
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Description

xx, 444 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Rethinking globalizations ; 10

Subjects

• Globalization
• Globalization > History
• Globalization > Forecasting

Note

• "Project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon." - T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JBE 08-685

ISBN

• 0415773601 (hbk.)
• 041577361X (pbk.)
• 0203937295 (ebk.)
• 9780415773607 (hbk.)
• 9780415773614 (pbk.)
• 9780203937297 (ebk.)

LCCN

2007025390

OCLC

145431732

Title

Globalization as evolutionary process : modeling global change / edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Series

Rethinking globalizations ; 10

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Modelski, George.

Devezas, Tessaleno C.

Thompson, William R.

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Research Call Number

JBE 08-685