Global studies and globalistics: The evolutionary dimension

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Jenne, Erin K.; Bozóki, András; Visnovitz, Péter (2022-06-21). Antisemitic Tropes, Fifth-Columnism, and 'Soros-Bashing': The Curious Case of Central European University. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197627938.003.0003. Today we can observe the predominance of ‘morphological’ task-solving pattern in Globalistics, whereas it is necessary to pay much more attention to historical and forecasting aspects of Global Studies.

Ilya V. Ilyin and Arkadi D. Ursul. Global Evolutionism: Theoretical and Methodological Problems (Full text)The issue of global systems, problems and processes modeling and forecasting is in the focus of practical study and should be settled by providing appropriate series of research, and through training of the staff, experienced in the application of various mathematical techniques. Part 2 ( Globalistics, Global Studies, and Models) comprises articles that consider in detail the notion of Globalistics and possible directions of development of this field of academic research. This section also contains articles on modeling of global processes, as well as their quantitative analyses with various globalization indices. Martell, Luke (2007). "The Third Wave in Globalization Theory" (PDF). International Studies Review. 9 (2): 173–196. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2007.00670.x. Ilyin, I. V., and Ivanov, A. V. 2009. Introduction to Global Ecology. Moscow: Moscow University Press. In Russian. The issue of crisis should be considered by means of all available in modern science methods, with the wide application of achievements in the area of anatomy of crisis, the theory of catastrophes, the study of crises in the earth evolution history. The exacerbation of a certain global problem will inevitably affect others and can cause a system crisis. Global crises cannot be studied separately as ecological, political, financial or psychological ones, etc. The crisis is a complex phenomenon, and an efficient approach to solving it should be also complex, interdisciplinary and synthetic.

In the present anthology one can find perceptions of globalization by a number of famous scholars from various countries of the world (Ervin Laszlo, Roland Robertson, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Randall Collins, Christopher Chase-Dunn, William Thompson and others), but one can also get to know rather peculiar visions of globalization by the Russian scientists and scholars. We have no doubt that in this respect the present volume could be of special interest, as Russia is a place where the Western and non-Western ideas and cultural processes have been meeting for centuries. In this respect Russia is a suitable country for the publication of a book with the aims outlined above.First of all, today it is possible to speak about three main subjects of Globalistics, namely global systems, processes and problems. They are interconnected and each concept should single out its own peculiar globality criteria. Let us dwell briefly on the peculiarities of the research activities of FGS MSU as a body set up among other things to fulfill the functions of a center of global ideas concentration and support for appropriate research. Victor, David G. (2021-10-28). "Rebuilding US-Chinese cooperation on climate change: The science and technology opportunity". Brookings . Retrieved 2021-11-15. Hence, due to the fact that Globalistics appears to be a more integral and systemic direction than Global Studies, it seems possible that this term will be able to fill a certain lacuna in the English academic thesaurus. Basing ourselves on this point (but also wishing to reflect some specific features of development of Global Studies in Russia) we have decided to name the present anthology Globalistics and Globalization Studies. Globalization is one of the most popular subjects of contemporary academic research. Globalization process itself is changing very fast, whereas the comprehension of this process speeds it up and makes it irreversible. Note that globalization studies have increased public interest in Global Studies that were rather popular in the 1960s and 1970s, but then this interest weakened for a while. It is quite clear that globalization can be treated as the most important global process, whereas the total number of global processes (natural and social, contemporary and historical) that find themselves in focus of scientific research is constantly growing. It becomes more and more clear that even in quite different global processes one may find a significant number of common systemic properties that make our comprehension of the global evolution more profound. It is not coincidental that Globalistics (this notion will be spelled out further below) pays a special attention to the comparison between natural and social global processes. This explains why the content of the notion of globalization expands. It is not just limited to the most popular spheres of economic and political globalization, but also includes the study of various global problems such as climatic change, cultural globalization, and so on.