Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future

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 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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9785705750269
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 400 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Volgograd
• (who): Uchitel Publishing House
• (when): 2016
• Contributor: Grinin, Leonid ; Ilyin, Ilya ; Herrmann, Peter ; Korotayev, Andrey

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57578-1
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 10:50 AM CEST