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Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future
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Abstract The present volume is the fifth in the series of yearbooks with the title Globalistics and
Globalization Studies. The subtitle of the present volume is Global Transformations and Global Future. We become more and more accustomed to think globally and to see global processes. And our future can all ... view more
The present volume is the fifth in the series of yearbooks with the title Globalistics and
Globalization Studies. The subtitle of the present volume is Global Transformations and Global Future. We become more and more accustomed to think globally and to see global processes. And our future can all means be global. However, is this statement justified? Indeed, in recent years, many have begun to claim that globalization has stalled, that we are rather dealing with the
process of anti-globalization. Will not we find ourselves at some point again in an edifice
spanning across the globe, but divided into national apartments, separated by walls of high tariffs and mutual suspicion? Of course, some setbacks are always possible, because the process of
globalization cannot develop smoothly. It is a process which is itself emerging from
contradictions and is shaped by a new contradiction. They often go much further than underlying systemic changes allow. They break forward, as the vanguard of a victorious army, and then often meet resistance of various social and political forces and may suddenly start to roll back just at the moment when everyone expects their further offensive. We believe that this is what is happening with globalization at present. The yearbook will be interesting to a wide range of researchers, teachers, students and all those who are concerned about global issues.... view less
Keywords
world order; futurology; population development; demographic aging; globalization; climate policy; global change; social change; international politics; world society
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Publisher
Uchitel Publishing House
City
Volgograd
Page/Pages
400 p.
ISBN
978-5-7057-5026-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed