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

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Introduction : a new approach to globalization / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson -- Globalization as evolutionary process / George Modelski -- The Portuguese as system builders : technological innovation in early globalization / Tessalino Devezas and George Modelski -- Modeling 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 Attina -- Compact mathematical models of world system development, and how they can help us to clarify our understanding of globalization processes / Andrey Korotayev -- Modeling periodic waves of integration in the Afroeurasian world system / Peter Turchin -- Discovering oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems / Douglas R. White, Natasa Kejzar, and Laurent Tambayong -- Nature, disease, and globalization : an evolutionary perspective / Dennis Pirages -- Globalization in history and the history of globalization : the application of a globalization model to historical research / Catia Antunes -- Three globalizing phases of the world system and modernity / Shumpei Kumon and Yasuhide Yamanouchi -- Accelerating socio-technological evolution : from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain / Francis Heylighen -- Growth of the internet, long waves and global change / Tessaleno C. Devezas, Harold A. Linstone, Humberto J. S. Santos -- The value to globalizing informatics research of an evolutionary view : one anthropologist's perspective / David Hakken -- Forecasting globalization : the use of international futures (Ifs) / Barry Hughes -- Forecasting globalization using world models / Rafael Reuveny -- Evolution, modernization and globalization : computer-based analysis of social complexity / Jurgen Kluver and Christina Kluver -- Assessment : what has been learnt? / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson.