George Modelski is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Washington, USA. Tessaleno Devezas is Associate Professor at the Department of Electromechanics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. William R. Thompson is Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Preface Joao Caraca. Foreword Nebojsa Nakicenovic 1. Introduction: A New
Approach to Globalization George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R.
Thompson Part 1: Evolutionary Models 2. Globalization as Evolutionary
Process George Modelski 3. The Portuguese as System Builders: Technological
Innovation in Early Globalization Tessalino Devezas and George Modelski 4.
Modeling Long-term Processes of Political Globalization William R. Thompson
5. Is Globalization Self-Organizing? Joachim Karl Rennstich 6. Theories of
Long-Term Change and the Future of World Political Institutions Fulvio
Attina Part 2: Models of Long-Term Change 7. Compact Mathematical Models of
World System Development, and How they can Help us to Clarify our
Understanding of Globalization Processes Andrey Korotayev 8. Modeling
Periodic Waves of Integration in the Afroeurasian World System Peter
Turchin 9. Discovering Oscillatory Dynamics of City-Size Distributions in
World Historical Systems Douglas R. White, Natasa Kejzar and Laurent
Tambayong 10. Nature, Disease and Globalization: An Evolutionary
Perspective Dennis Pirages 11. Globalization in History and the History of
Globalization: The Application of a Globalization Model to Historical
Research Catia Antunes Part 3: Global Change and the Information Age 12.
Three Globalizing Phases of the World System and Modernity Shumpei Kumon
and Yasuhide Yamanouchi 13. Accelerating Socio-Technological
Evolution: From Ephemeralization and Stigmergy to the Global Brain Francis
Heylighen 14. Growth of the Internet, Long Waves and Global Change
Tessaleno C. Devezas, Harold A. Linstone and Humberto J.S. Santos 15. The
Value to Globalizing Informatics Research of an Evolutionary View: One
Anthropologist's Perspective David Hakken Part 4: Forecasting and
Simulating Globalization 16. Forecasting Globalization: The Use of
International Futures (Ifs) Barry Hughes 17. Forecasting Globalization
Using World Models Rafael Reuveny 18. Evolution, Modernization and
Globalization: Computer-Based Analysis of Social Complexity Jurgen Kluver
and Christina Kluver Part 5: Assessment 19. Assessment: What Has Been
Learnt? George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson
