Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change (Rethinking Globalizations)

The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization.   The editors and contributors develop a framework for understanding the origins and trajectory of contemporary world trends, constructing testable and verifiable models of globalization. They demonstrate how the evolutionary approach allows us to view globalization as an enterprise of the human species as a whole focusing on the analytical problem of global change and the rules governing those changes. The emphasis is not on broad-based accounts of the course of world affairs but, selectively, on processes that reshape the social of the human species, the making of world opinion and the innovations that animate these developments.   Chapters are clustered into four foci. One emphasizes the interpretation of globalization as an explicitly evolutionary process. A second looks at historical sequences of such phenomena as population growth or imperial rise and decline as processes that can be modeled and not purely described. The third cluster examines ongoing changes in economic processes, especially information technology. A final cluster takes on some of the challenges associated with forecasting and simulating the complexities of globalization processes.  This innovative and important volume will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences concerned with the phenomenon of globalization.

George Modelski

Tessaleno Devezas

William R. Thompson

History

Routledge

Portugal - O Pioneiro da Globalização

Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues

Business & Money

CENTRO ATLÂNTICO

INNOVATION & STRATEGY IN MODERN HISTORY The world system's telltale signature unveils the emergence of the first globalizing power Five main theses are defended in this book: ? History is not a mere accumulation of past facts, the fruit of chance and uncertainty, and the Science of History is not a simplistic narrative of past 'stories.' ? Globalization is an evolutionary and irreversible process, initially conceived in China around the 10th century, and born with the Portuguese Discoveries movement in the 15th and 16th centuries. ? The Portuguese were pioneers in the process that led to the transition to a true global system of cultural and commercial exchange. ? The application of systemic methodology to the analysis of History allows for the construction of viable future scenarios. ? There is an inheritance from the Portuguese generations active during the apex period between the 15th and 16th centuries (the "Discoveries Matrix"), as well as a portfolio of acquired knowledge regarding this country's capacity for resilience and its historical relationship to some of the emerging 21st century powers. Also in Printed in the Portuguese Language : " Portugal - O Pioneiro da Globalização"

Pioneers of Globalization: Why the Portuguese surprised the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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