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Globalization as Evolutionary
Process
The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments
are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity.
In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international
experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis to address the
problems of globalization.
The editors and contributors develop a framework for understanding the
origins and trajectory of contemporary world trends, constructing testable and
verifiable models of globalization. They demonstrate how the evolutionary
approach allows us to view globalization as an enterprise of the human species
as a whole focusing on the analytical problem of global change and the rules
governing those changes. The emphasis is not on broad-based accounts of the
course of world affairs but, selectively, on processes that reshape the social of
the human species, the making of world opinion and the innovations that
animate these developments.
Chapters are clustered into four foci. One emphasizes the interpretation of
globalization as an explicitly evolutionary process. A second looks at historical
sequences of such phenomena as population growth or imperial rise and decline
as processes that can be modeled and not purely described. The third cluster
examines ongoing changes in economic processes, especially information
technology. A final cluster takes on some of the challenges associated with
forecasting and simulating the complexities of globalization processes.
This innovative and important volume will be of interest to students
and scholars across the social sciences concerned with the phenomenon of
globalization.
George Modelski
is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political Science,
University of Washington, USA.
Tessaleno Devezas
is Associate Professor at the Department of Electro-
mechanics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
William R. Thompson
is Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Rethinking globalizations
Edited by Barry Gills,
University of Newcastle, UK
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalization and its
academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to
the economic understanding of globalization, this series seeks to capture the term and
broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey
a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
1. Whither Globalization?
The vortex of knowledge and globalization
James H. Mittelman
2. Globalization and Global History
Edited by Barry K Gills, William R. Thompson
3. Rethinking Civilization
Communication and terror in the global village
Majid Tehranian
4. Globalisation and Contestation
The new great counter-movement
Ronaldo Munck
5. Global Activism
Ruth Reitan
6. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia
Edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi
7. Challenging Euro-America’s Politics of Identity
The return of the native
Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes
8. The Global Politics of Globalization
“Empire” vs “Cosmolis”
Barry K Gills
9. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis
Jan Oosthoek
10. Globalization as Evolutionary Process
Modeling global change
Edited by Geroge Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson
11. The Political Economy of Global Security
War, future crises and changes in global governance
Heikki Patomäki
Globalization as Evolutionary
Process
Modeling global change
Edited by George Modelski,
Tessaleno Devezas, and
William R. Thompson
Project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon
First published 2008
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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© 2008 George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and
William R. Thompson election and editorial matter;
individual contributors, their contributions
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or
retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Globalization as evolutionary process : modeling global change /
edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and
William R. Thompson.
p. cm. – (Rethinking globalizations ; 10)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Globalization. 2. Globalization–History. 3. Globalization-
Forecasting. I. Modelski, George. II. Devezas, Tessaleno C.
III. Thompson, William R.
2007025390
JZ1318.G587 2007 303.48 2–dc22
ISBN 0-203-93729-5 Master e-book ISBN
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