GLOBAL PROCESSES AND SCENARIOS

• Laszlo, Ervin
  Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window   
• Grinin, Leonid
  Chinese Joker in the World Pack   
• Korotayev, Andrey; Zinkina, Julia; Bogevolnov, Justislav; Malkov, Artemy
  Global Unconditional Convergence among Larger Economies after 1998?  
• Junge, Benjamin; Korona, Emily
  ‘Another U.S. is Necessary’: Per-ceptions of the World Social Forum Process by U.S. Civil Society Organizations   
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Global Processes and Their Dynamics: Two Paradigms of Development   

DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION

• Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas
  Re-Orient? Understanding Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy   
• Jourdon, Philippe
  A New Theory of Monetary Long Cycles under Scrutiny of First Round Empirical Tests   

MANIFESTATIONS OF GLOBALIZATION AT REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS

• Hasan, Mubashar
  The Concept of Globalization and How This has Impacted on Contemporary Muslim Understanding of Ummah   
• Sharmin, Sifat
  Does Globalization Always Increase Inequality? An Econometric Analysis in Bangladesh Perspective   

REVIEWS AND NOTES

• Moscow. Second International Congress ‘Globalistics-2011: Ways to Strategic Stability and the Problem of Global Governance (Igor I. Abylgaziev and Ilya V. Ilyin)  
• Shanghai. The Fourth Annual Global Studies Consortium Meeting (Ivan Aleshkovski)  
• Beijing. The Twentieth World History Association Conference, July 7–10, 2011 (Lowell Gustafson, Andrey Korotayev and Leonid Grinin)   
• Perth. The Journal Goes Down-Under: A Review of Activities at the Perth IUAES Conference, July 5–8, 2011 (James Sheffield)  
• Macrohistory and Globalization  
• Contributors to the Issue