K-Waves in Global Perspective

• Introduction. Kondratieff's Mystery 
• Modelski, George
  Kondratieff (K-) Waves in the Modern World System 
• Ternyik, Stephen I.
  K-Periodicity, Space-Time Structures and World Economics 
• Helenius, Anttiheikki
  Waves on Waves – Long Waves on the Seven Seas 

K-Waves in National Perspective

• Berry, Brian J. L.; Dean, Denis J.
  Long Wave Rhythms: A Pictorial Guide to 220 Years of U.S. History, with Forecasts 
• Diebolt, Claude
  Cliometrics of Economic Cycles in France 

Global Crisis: A K-Wave Perspective

• Devezas, Tessaleno C.
  The Recent Crisis under the Light of the Long Wave Theory  
• Husson, Michel; Louçã, Francisco
  Late Capitalism and Neo-Liberalism – A Perspective on the Current Phase of the Long Wave of Capitalist Development  

Problems and Forecasts

• Thompson, William R.
  Energy, K-Waves, Lead Economies, and Their Inter-pretation/Implications 
• Perez, Carlota
  Technological Revolutions and the Role of Government in Unleashing Golden Ages 

Introduction

• Goldstone, Jack A.; Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Research into Global Ageing and Its Consequences 

I. Aspects of Political Demography

• Coleman, David A.
  Ethnic Transformation of European Societies by Immigration  
• Coleman, David A. ; Rowthorn, Robert
  Population Decline – Making the Best of Inevitable Destiny? 
• Sakaev, Vasil T.
  The Political Development of Russia in the 21st Century: Challenges of Demographic Factor and the Role of Educational System 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Goldstone, Jack A.; Zinkina, Julia; Shulgin, Sergey G. ; Khaltourina, Daria A. ; Folomeyeva, Daria A.
  Mathematical Modeling and Forecasting of the Demographic Future of Russia: Seven Scenarios 

II. Facing Population Ageing

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Global Population Ageing, the Sixth Kondratieff Wave, and the Global Financial System 
• Park, Donghyun; Kwanho Shin
  Impact of Population Ageing on Asia's Future Growth 
• Haas, Mark L.
  Population Ageing and the Future of the Great Powers 
• Goldstone, Jack A.
  Population Ageing and Global Economic Growth 
• Powell, Jason L.; Khan, Hafiz
  Ageing in Post-Industrial Society: Trends and Trajecto-ries 

III. Reviews and Notes

• Goldstone, Jack A.
  On Great Divergence, Great Convergence, Industrial Revolution, and California School 

Aspects & Dimensions of Global Views

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Ilyin, Ilya V.
  Introduction. Global Studies in Different Dimensions 

Introduction

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Once More about Aspects, Directions, General Patterns and Principles of Evolutionary Development 

Globalistics and globalization studies: Global Transformations and Global Future.

• Grinin, Leonid; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Herrmann, Peter; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. How Global Can Be Global Future? 

Introduction.

• Grinin, Leonid; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Herrmann, Peter; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. From the First Galaxies to the 2040s 

Universal Evolution

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Carneiro, Robert L.; Spier, Fred
  Introduction. Evolutionary Megaparadigm: Potential, Problems, Perspectives 
• Spier, Fred
  How Big History Works: Energy Flows and the Rise and Demise of Complexity  
• Carneiro, Robert L.
  Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution: A Study in Parallel Processes 

Analyses of the World Systems and Global Processes

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Herrmann, Peter
  Introduction. History & Mathematics: Processes and Models of Global Dynamics 
• Harper, Tony
  The Trajectory of the World System over the Last 5000 Years 
• Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Niemeyer, Richard; Alvarez, Alexis; Inoue, Hiroko; Lawrence, Kirk; Love, James
  Cycles of Rise and Fall, Upsweeps and Collapses: Changes in the scale of settlements and polities since the Bronze Age 
• Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S. J.
  On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process" 

I. Evolution and Understanding of Big History

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Rodrigue, Barry H.
  Introduction 
• Christian, David G.
  The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction 
• Spier, Fred
  Big History Research: A First Outline 
• Chaisson, Eric J.
  Cosmic Evolution – More Than Big History by Another Name 
• Mirkovic, Alexander
  Big History and the End of History 
• Rodrigue, Barry H.
  The Evolution of Macro History in the United States 
• Nazaretyan, Akop P.
  Mega-Evolution and Big History 

I. Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Yesterday and Today

• Introduction. At the Junction of Theories and Paradigms 
• Modelski, George
  Kondratieff Waves, Evolution and Globalization 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Globalization and the World System Evolution 
• Korotayev, Andrey
  Globalization and Mathematical Modeling of Global Evolution 

I. Long-Term Trends in Nature and Society

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Modeling and Measuring Cycles, Processes, and Trends  
• Grinin, Leonid; Markov, Alexander V.; Korotayev, Andrey
  Mathematical Modeling of Biological and Social Evolutionary Macrotrends  
• Harper, Tony
  The World System Trajectory: The Reality of Constraints and the Potential for Prediction  
• Thompson, William R.; Kentaro Sakuwa
  Another, Simpler Look: Was Wealth Really Determined in 8000 BCE, 1000 BCE, 0 CE, or Even 1500 CE? 

Part I. Philosophy of globalization and methodology of global studies

• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ursul, Arkadi A.
  Global Knowledge Revolution 
• Kiss, Endre
  On the Philosophy of the Contemporary Globalization  
• Chumakov, Alexander N.
  An Insight from Globalistics Perspective: What Must We Do Confronted with Globalization?  
• Schang, Fabien
  Making Sense of History? Thinking about International Relations  
• Kostina, Ksenia
  Political Culture: The Features of Political Decision Making in the Context of Globalization  

Theories, Research & Teaching

• Introduction. Global Studies from Theories to Teaching  

Part I. GLOBALIZATION IN HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Origins of Globalization 
• Chase-Dunn, Christopher
  Continuities and Transformations in the Evolution of World-System 
• Harper, Tony
  The Trajectory of the World System over the Last 5000 Years  
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Global Technological Transformations 
• Sagomonyan, A. A.
  Spanish Issue in the Global Confrontation of the Great Powers on the Threshold of the Cold War 

I. Universal Evolutionary Principles

• Grinin, Leonid
  Cosmic Evolution and Universal Evolutionary Principles 
• LePoire, David
  Potential Nested Accelerating Returns Logistic Growth in Big History  
• Christian, David G.
  Universal Darwinism and Human History 
• Baker, David
  Collective Learning as a Key Concept in Big History 
• Benjamin, Craig
  Collective Learning and the Silk Roads 

Part I. Big History and Global History

• Baker, David
  The Darwinian Algorithm and a Possible Candidate for a ‘Unifying Theme’ of Big History 
• Baskin, Ken
  The Dynamics of Evolution: What Complexity Theory Suggests for Big History's Approach to Biological and Cultural Evolution 
• Rodrigue, Barry H.
  Retrofitting the Future 
• Little, Daniel
  Nation, Region, and Globe: Alternative Definitions of Place in World History 
• Zinkina, Julia; Korotayev, Andrey; Andreev, Alexey I.
  Mass Primary Education in the Nineteenth Century 
• Zinkina, Julia; Korotayev, Andrey; Ilyin, Ilya V.
  The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Global Secondary and Higher Education 
• Herrmann, Peter; Hong Fan; Rzepka Remi
  Education in an International Setting 
• Grinin, Leonid; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Andreev, Alexey I.
  Global History and Future World Order 

Contents

• Grinin, Leonid; Devezas, Tessaleno C.; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. The Cyclical Dynamics as Associated with Economic Development 

Contents

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Global Evolution and Global Ageing 

Contents

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. To Verify Harmony by Algebra 

Part I. BIG HISTORY AND GLOBAL EVOLUTION

• Grinin, Leonid
  Сosmic Evolution and Universal Evolutionary Principles 
• Panov, Alexander
  Prebiological Panspermia and the Hypothesis of the Self-Consistent Galaxy Origin of Life 
• Grinin, Leonid
  A Brief History of the Early Solar System 
• Grinin, Anton L.
  Self-Regulation as a Global Evolutionary Mega-Trend 
• Lempert, David
  The Logic of Cultural Suicide and Application to Contemporary Global Strategies: Drawing from Models in Psychology and Biology  
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ursul, Arkadi A.
  Vladimir Vernadsky's Contribution to the Origin of the Global Trend in Science 

Analyzing and Modeling Global Development

• Introduction. History and Mathematics
• Grinin, Leonid
  Periodization of History: A theoretic-mathematical analysis
• Korotayev, Andrey
  The World System History Periodization and Mathematical Models of Socio-Historical Processes
• Tausch, Arno
  Global Terrorism and World Political Cycles
• Nazaretyan, Akop P.
  Violence and Non-Violence at Different. Stages of World History
• Burton, Michael L.; Romney, A.Kimball; Moore, Carmella C.
  The Use of Cross-Cultural Research Methodology in the Study of Deep History
• Komarova, Natalia
  Language and Mathematics: An evolutionary model of grammatical communication

Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies

• Turchin, Peter; Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  Introduction. Why Do We Need. Mathematical Models of Historical Processes
• Turchin, Peter
  Scientific Prediction in Historical Sociology: Ibn Khaldun meets Al Saud
• Klüver, Jürgen
  Logical and Explanative Characteristics of Evolutionary Theories
• Korotayev, Andrey
  The World System Urbanization Dynamics: A quantitative analysis
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Political Development of the World System: A formal quantitative analysis
• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  Urbanization and Political Development of the World System: A comparative quantitative analysis
• De Munck, Victor
  Experiencing History Small: An analysis of political, economic and social change in a Sri Lankan village
• Spencer, Charles S.
  Modeling (and Measuring) Expansionism and Resistance: State formation in Ancient Oaxaca, Mexico
• Malkov, Artemy
  The Silk Roads: A mathematical model

Globalistics and Globalization Studies

• Grinin, Leonid; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Globalization, Globalistics and Global Studies  

Globalistics and globalization studies. Big history & global history

• Introduction. Big History and Global History in the Field of Globalistics 

Globalization Studies and Evolutionary Trends

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Preface 

Biological and Social forms of Evolution: Connections and Comparisons

• Snooks, Graeme D.
  Constructing a General Theory of Life: The Dynamics of Human and Non-human Systems 
• Lekevičius, Edmundas
  Ecological Darwinism or Preliminary Answers to Some Crucial though Seldom Asked Questions 
• Reznikova, Zhanna
  Evolutionary and Behavioural Aspects of Altruism in Animal Communities: Is There Room for Intelligence? 
• Grinin, Leonid; Markov, Alexander V.; Korotayev, Andrey
  Biological and Social Aromorphoses: A Comparison between Two Forms of Macroevolution 

The Models of Economic and Demographic Processes

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Malkov, Sergey
  A Mathematical Model of Juglar Cycles and the Current Global Crisis  
• Golosovsky, Michael
  Hyperbolic Growth of the Human Population of the Earth: Analysis of existing models 
• Badalian, Lucy; Krivorotov, Victor
  A Dynamic Model of Historical Economies 

II. Big History's Trends and Phases

• Kutter, G. Siegfried
  Stars, Life and Society: Evolution in the Making 
• Gehrels, Tom
  The Chandra Multiverse 
• Alvarez, Alexis; Montanari, Alessandro; Shimabukuro, David
  Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi: Reading History Written in Rocks  
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Markov, Alexander V.
  Biological and Social Phases of Big History: Similarities and Diversities of Evolution Principles and Mechanisms 
• Hookes, David
  The Evolution of Information Systems: From the Big Bang to the Era of Globalisation 
• Panov, Alexander
  Post-singular Evolution and Post-singular Civilizations 

II. Society, Energy, and Future

• Thompson, William R.
  Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications 
• LePoire, David
  Potential Economic and Energy Indicators of Inflection in Complexity 
• Voros, Joseph
  Profiling ‘Threshold 9’: Using Big History as a Frame-Work for Thinking about the Contours of the Coming Global Future 

II. Cyclical Processes in Pre-industrial Societies

• Gavrilets, Sergey; Anderson, David G.; Turchin, Peter
  Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies 
• Baker, David
  Demographic-Structural Theory and the Roman Dominate 
• Nefedov, Sergey
  Modeling Malthusian Dynamics in Pre-industrial Societies: Mathematical Modeling 

Part II. Global and regional relations and processes

• Leonova, Olga
  Soft Power as a State's Foreign Policy Resource  
• Weiming Tu
  Multiple Modernities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Implications of the East Asian Modernity 
• Kirchschlaeger, Peter
  The Relation between Democracy and Human Rights 
• Howell, Anthony
  Is Geography ‘Dead’ or ‘Destiny’ in a Globalizing World? A Network Analysis and Latent Space Modeling Approach of the World Trade Network 
• Hae Kim
  Regionalism, Globalization and Economic Development of the World  
• Faleye, Olukayode
  Africa and International Relations Theory: Acquiescence and Responses 

Part 1. HISTORICAL DIMENSION

• Thompson, William R.
  The Lead Economy Sequence in World Politics (From Sung China to the United States): Selected Counterfactuals  
• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  Global Urbanization and Political Development of the World System 
• Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Niemeyer, Richard; Alvarez, Alexis; Inoue, Hiroko; Lawrence, Kirk; Love, James
  Global Cycles of Rise and Fall, Upsweeps and Collapses: Changes in the Scale of Settlements and Polities since the Bronze Age  
• Shestova, Tatyana
  Global History as a Trend of Global Studies  

Juglar – Kuznets – Kondratieff

• Grinin, Leonid; Devezas, Tessaleno C.; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Cyclical Dynamics in Economics and Politics in the Past and in the Future  

Part II. GLOBALISTICS, GLOBAL STUDIES, AND GLOBAL PROCESSES

• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ursul, Arkadi A.
  Global Studies in Modern Science 
• Leonova, Olga
  Categories, Models and Forecast of the Global Confi guration 
• Shestova, Tatyana
  Methodological Foundations of Global History 
• Drobot, G.
  The Problem of Universal Values in World Politics 
• Tausch, Arno
  Global Terrorism and World Political Cycles 
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Rozanov, A.
  The Impact of Globalization on the Formation of the Global Political System 
• Taran, Patrick A.
  Globalization, Migration and Labour: Imperatives for a Rights Based Policy 
• Aleshkovski, Ivan A.
  Illegal Immigration as a Structural Factor of Global Development 
• Culture and the Sustainability of the Global System 

Part I. Globalization and Global Processes

• Modelski, George
  Kondratieff Waves, Evolution, and Globalization 
• Grinin, Anton L. ; Grinin, Leonid
  The Cybernetic Revolution and Historical Process 
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  A Worldview Approach to the Developmental Problems of Russia and the World 
• Aleshkovski, Ivan A.
  International Migration Management in the Era of Globalization 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  Globalization, Revolutions, and Democracy 
• Andreev, Alexey I.; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Zinkina, Julia
  Approaches and Paradigms in Defining the Essence of Globalization 
• Alekseenko, Oleg A.
  BRICS: Prospects of Cooperation 
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Leonova, Olga
  Globalization Political Processes in Their Dynamic and Development 

II. Biosocial Evolution, Ecological Aspects, and Consciousness

• Korotayev, Andrey; Markov, Alexander V.; Grinin, Leonid
  Modeling of Biological and Social Phases of Big History 
• Panov, Alexander
  Prebiological Panspermia and the Hypothesis of the Self-Consistent Galaxy Origin of Life 
• Sorokina, Olga A.; Gorter, Rendt
  Social Evolution of Humankind as an Integral Part of the Evolution of the Biosphere 
• Tobias, Michael C.; Morrison, Jane Gray
  The ‘Ahimsa Factor’: Ecological Non-Violence Process Analysis in China and Its Implications for Global Paradigmatic Shifts 
• Ponomariov, Ilya V.
  Situational Binding and Inner Speech: Cross-Sectional Evidences 

Part II. Global Demography

• Goldstone, Jack A.
  Population Ageing and Global Economic Growth 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Global Population Ageing, the Sixth Kondratieff Wave, and the Global Financial System  
• Korotayev, Andrey; Goldstone, Jack A.; Zinkina, Julia; Shulgin, Sergey G. ; Khaltourina, Daria A. ; Bykanova Daria
  Mathematical Modeling and Forecasting of the Demographic Future of Russia: Seven Scenarios 
• Aleshkovski, Ivan A.
  International Migration and Globalization: Global Trends and Perspectives 
• Farhi-Rodrig, Miriam
  Global Migration: A Transnational Problem 

I. Cyclical Dynamics and Theories

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Malkov, Sergey
  The Mathematical Model of Juglar Cycles and the Current Global Crisis 
• Tausch, Arno
  Kaname Akamatsu. Biography and Long Cycles Theory 
• Berry, Brian J. L.; Elliott, Euel
  The Surprise that Transforms. An American Perspective on What the 2040s Might Bring 
• Gallegati, Marco
  Wavelet Estimation of Kondratieff Waves: An Applica-tion to Long Cycles in Prices and World GDP 
• Norkus, Zenonas
  On Global Social Mobility, or How Kondratieff Waves Change the Structure of the Capitalist World System 

I. Dimensions, Trends, and Aspects

• Baskin, Ken
  The Dynamics of Evolution: What Complexity Theory Suggests for Big History's Approach to Biological and Cultural Evolution  
• Ternyik, Stephen I.
  Quantum Energetic Evolution  
• Sorokina, Olga A.; Gorter, Rendt
  Pathfinding: Macroecology as a Social Science 
• Grinin, Leonid
  Evolution of World Order 

I. Historical and Technological Dimensions

• Korotayev, Andrey; Berezkin, Yuri E.; Borinskaya, Svetlana A.; Davletshin, Albert I.; Khaltourina, Daria A.
  Genes and Myths: Which Genes and Myths did the Different Waves of the Peopling of Americas Bring to the New World? 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  The Technological Activity and Competition in the Middle Ages and Modern History: A Quantitative Analysis  

Part II. HISTORICAL GLOBALISTICS

• Harper, Tony
  An Equation-Based Systems Approach to Modeling Punctuated Equilibria Apparent in the Macropattern of Urbanization over Time  
• Grinin, Leonid
  Investigation of the World System's Systemic Processes 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  The Technological Competition after the Twelfth Century: A Quantitative Analysis 
• Zinkina, Julia; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Korotayev, Andrey
  The Nineteenth-Century Urbanization Transition in the First World 
• Zinkina, Julia; Andreev, Alexey I.; Mosakova, Elizaveta
  The Nineteenth Century as the Cradle of Global Capital 
• Zinkina, Julia; Korotayev, Andrey; Aleshkovskii, Ivan
  The Demographic Transition in the First World: The Nineteenth Century 
• Zinkina, Julia; Alekseenko, Oleg A. ; Ilyin, Ilya V.
  Global Struggle for Suffrage Expansion: The European Case for Male Suffrage in the Nineteenth Century 

Part II. Global History and Modernity

• Christian, David G.
  Swimming Upstream: Universal Darwinism and Human History 
• Shestova, Tatyana
  Eastern Europe within the Ancient World-Systems 
• Benjamin, Craig
  Big History, Collective Learning and the Silk Roads 
• Tsirel Sergey V.
  Classifications of Ways to Statehood and Democracy 
• Thompson, William R.; Kentaro Sakuwa
  Another, Simpler Look: Was Wealth Really Determined in 8000 BCE, 1000 BCE, 0 CE, or Even 1500 CE? 
• Kaverin, Mikhail А.; Malkov, Sergey
  The Elementary Structures of International Institutional Evolution 
• Maslov, Vladimir
  The Need for New Management 
• Malkov, Sergey; Bilyuga, S.; Davydova, O.; Malkov, D.
  Resistance to Socio-Political Instability as an Indicator of the Country's Successful Development 
• Andreev, Alexey I.; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Zinkina, Julia
  The ‘Age’ of Globalization. How Old is the Global World? 

Cultural Dimensions

• De Munck, Victor
  The Self is not Culture: Toward a unified theory of self, identity and culture  

Aspects of Social Evoluton

• Bondarenko, Dmitri M.; Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Social Evolution: Alternatives and Variations (Introduction) 
• Chase-Dunn, Christopher
  Evolution of Nested Networks in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest: A Comparative World-Systems Approach 
• Heylighen, Francis
  Conceptions of a Global Brain: An Historical Review 

III. Essays on Big History

• Hughes, Nigel
  The Change We Can Believe In: Ten Facts about the Evolution of the Earth-Life System and their Relevance to current Global Environmental Change 
• Werkhoven, Jos
  Once upon a Time… There was a Story to be Told… 
• Gronek, Erika K. H.
  And Then There Was You…: A Children's Story of Science and Emotion 
• Metallo, Paula
  Brain Stretching: Art and Big History 
• Lawless, Gary
  Big History, Bioregionalism and Geopoetics 
• Quaedackers, Esther
  A Little Big History of Tiananmen 
• Saekow, Roland
  From Concept to Reality: Developing a Zoomable timeline for Big History 
• Tierney, James
  Two Themes Inherent in Big History 

III. Aspects of social development

• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Macroevolution of Technology 
• Harper, Tony
  Global Volcanism as It Impacts the Integrity of the World System 
• Corbally, Christopher, S.J.; Rappaport, M. B.
  Crossing the Latest Line: The Evolution of Religious Thought as a Component of Human Sentience 
• Robinson, Neil
  ‘Natural’ States and the Development of Democracy 

III. Contemporary History and Processes

• Korotayev, Andrey; Malkov, Sergey; Grinin, Leonid
  A Trap at the Escape from the Trap? Some Demographic Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modernizing Social Systems 
• Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas
  Labour Migration and ‘Smart Public Health 
• Howell, Anthony
  Is Geography ‘Dead’ or ‘Destiny’ in a Globalizing World? A Network Analysis and Latent Space Modeling Approach of the World Trade Network 
• Crawford, Kent R.; Mitiukov, Nicholas W.
  The British-Italian Performance in the Mediterranean from the Artillery Perspective 
• Shishkina, Alisa R.; Issaev, Leonid M.; Truevtsev, Konstantin M.; Korotayev, Andrey
  The Shield of Islam? Islamic Factor of HIV Prevalence in Africa 

Part III. Global trends and perspectives

• Korotayev, Andrey; De Munck, Victor
  Advances in Development Reverse Global Inequality Trends  
• Grinin, Leonid
  The Tiger and the Dragon. Development Models and Perspectives of India and China  
• Sevim, Tuğçe
  Energy Impact of Coming Eurasian Union and Relations between Russia and Turkey 
• Powell, Jason L.; Khan, Hafiz
  Ageing and Globalization: A Global Analysis 
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  The Main Trends of the Global Dynamics and the Future of the World Development  

Part 2. GLOBALISTICS, GLOBAL STUDIES AND MODELS

• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ursul, Arkadi A.
  Globalistics: New Investigative Trends in Science  
• Chumakov, Alexander N.
  Social Aspects of Globalization (From a Globalistics Viewpoint) 
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ivanov, A.
  Global Processes, Systems and Problems through Globalistics Lens: A Path to a New Synthesis 
• Dreher, A.; Gaston, Noel; Martens, Pim; Van Boxem, Lotte
  Measuring Globalization – Opening the Black Box. A Critical Analysis of Globalization Indices 
• Korotayev, Andrey
  Globalization and Mathematical Modeling of Global Development 
• Golosovsky, Michael
  Hyperbolic Growth of the Human Population of the Earth: Analysis of Existing Models  
• Malkov, Sergey
  The Logic of World Development 
• Ursul, Arkadi A.; Ilyin, Ilya V.
  Global Evolutionism: Theoretical and Methodological Problems 

I. The System of Cycles

• Jourdon, Philippe
  From Kuznets Theory to a New Global Governance, Using a Mathematical Concept of Relations between Wealth-Creating Kuznets Cycles and a Kondratieff-Inspired System of Management 
• Bernard, Lucas ; Gevorkyan, Aleksandr ; Palley, Thomas ; Semmler, Willi
  Long-Wave Economic Cycles: The Contributions of Kondratieff, Kuznets, Schumpeter, Kalecki, Goodwin, Kaldor, and Minsky  

Part III. TEACHING GLOBAL STUDIES

• Coicaud, J.
  Refl ections on Some of the Challenges of Global Affairs as an Academic Field 
• Kulnazarova, A.
  Teaching Human Rights in Global Perspectives: A Shared View and Experience from the School of Global Studies 
• Bausch, Ken; McIntyre-Mills, Janet; Made, Tony; Mackenzie, Kelly; Morse, Charles; Underwood, Gayle
  Striving for Sustainable Global Democracy Through a Group Decision-Making Process: A Critical Review of an Online Course to Model Transformative Praxi 
• Abylgaziev, I.; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Gabdullin, R.
  Introduction to the History and Methodology of Global Studies 
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Gabdullin, R.; Ivanov, A.
  Global Processes and Systems 
• Chumakov, Alexander N.
  Studying of Globalization: Step by Step 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Political Globalistics 
• University of Graz and Other Eighteen Universities' Curricula for Global Studies: Comparisons and Improvements 
• University of Leipzig 
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) 
• Lomonosov Moscow State University: Faculty of Global Studies 
• Shanghai University: The Postgraduate Program of Global Studies 
• Contributors to the volume 

Part III. Big History Perspective

• Christian, David G.
  The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction 
• Gustafson, Lowell
  From Particles to Politics 
• Grinin, Leonid
  The Star-Galaxy Era of Big History in the Light of Universal Evolutionary Principles 
• Baker, David
  Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Collective Learning as a Key Concept in Big History 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Markov, Alexander V.
  Mathematical Modeling of Biological and Social Phases of Big History 
• Voros, Joseph
  Galactic-Scale Macro-еngineering: Looking for Signs of Other Intelligent Species, as an Exercise in Hope for Our Own 
• Panov, Alexander
  Post-singular Evolution and Post-singular Civilizations 

III. Projects for the Future

• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Governing the Time Will Govern Development – or, ‛Territory of Faster Development: Everything for People’ Megaproject Realization Proposals 
• Vasilenko, Vasily N.
  The Noospheric Concept of Evolution, Globalization and Big History 
• Grinin, Anton L. ; Grinin, Leonid
  Cybernetic Revolution and Forthcoming Technological Transformations (The Development of the Leading Technologies in the Light of the Theory of Production Revolutions) 
• In Memoriam 

Part III. Aspects of Globalization and International Politics

• Smit, Paul А.
  Transnational Labour Relations in SADC: Regional Integration or Regional Globalisation? 
• Kiss, Endre
  Constructivity and Destructivity in the Globalization, as a Background of the Problematic of Peace 
• Bilyuga, S.; Shishkina, Alisa R.; Zinkina, Julia; Korotayev, Andrey
  Global Correlation between GDP Per Capita and the Level of Sociopolitical Destabilization between 1960 and 2014: A Preliminary Quantitative Analysis 
• Kornienko, Olga
  Social and Economic Background of Blending 
• Alekseenko, Oleg A. ; Ilyin, Ilya V.
  The Theory of High-Level Process Integration Research and Development of Global Communication Networks 
• Lenger, Alexander; Schumacher, Florian
  The Social Functions of Sport: A Theoretical Approach to the Interplay of Emerging Powers, National Identity, and Global Sport Events 
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Bilyuga, S.; Malkov, Sergey
  The Empirical Analysis of the Voting Results in the UN General Assembly 
• Leonova, Olga
  Interpretation of the ‘Soft Power’ Concept in the Russian Political Science 
• Kolesnichenko, Olga; Rozanov, A.; Debin, Liu
  The Role of BRICS in Global Politics 

II. From My Perspective

• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Providing the Balance of Technological and Social Changes in Real-Time Regime Plus the Economic Growth 
• Ternyik, Stephen I.
  Geonomics, Energetics and the K-Paradox: A Sustainable Point of View 

II. Big History's Manifestations

• Gilbert, K
  The Universal Breakthroughs of Big History: Developing a Unified Theory  
• Benjamin, Craig
  Big History and Liberal Education in the Undergraduate Classroom 
• Gelis-Filho, Antonio
  Brazil in the World-System between 1989 and 2016: The Rise and Fall of a Semi-Peripheral Dream  

II. Economic and Cultural Dimensions

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Inflationary and Deflationary Trends in the Global Economy, or Expansion of ‘the Japanese Disease’ 
• Tausch, Arno
  Towards New Maps of Global Human Values, Based on World Values Survey (6) Data 

Part III. GLOCALIZATION

• Waters, Ryan; Blad, Cory
  In the Land of Whose People? Inequality, Neoliberalism, and Shifting Nationalisms in Israel 
• Endong, Floribert Patrick
  LGBT Rights Movement in Africa and the Myth of the Whiteman's Superiority 

IV. The driving forces and patterns of evolution

• Baker, David
  10^500. The Darwinian Algorithm and a Possible Candidate for a ‘Unifying Theme’ of Big History  
• Skladnev, Dmitry A.; Klykov, Sergey P.; Kurakov, Vladimir V.
  Complication of Animal Genomes in the Course of the Evolution Slowed Down after the Cambrian Explosion 
• Saniotis, Arthur; Henneberg, Maciej; Kumaratilake, Jaliya
  An Evolutionary and Anthropological Examination of Brain/Mind and Novelty 

Part IV. Teaching global studies

• Ahamer, Gilbert
  Multi-Disciplinary Didactics for Curricula of ‘Global Studies’ 
• Sheffield, Jim
  Local Solutions in a Global Environment: Facilitating National Strategies in New Zealand  
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ursul, Arkadi A.
  Evolutionary Globalistics 
• Ruettimann, Bruno
  Economic Globalization: The Five Basic Globalization Types 
• Manning, Patrick
  Interdisciplinary Methodology: A Graduate-Level Course in Global Studies 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Baker, David
  Beyond Global Studies. The Introductory Lecture to Big History Course 
• Section 2. Global Studies Curricula and Syllabi around the World 

Part 3. TRENDS, RISKS, AND PROBLEMS

• Collins, Randall
  Geopolitical Conditions of Internationalism, Human Rights, and World Law 
• Grinin, Leonid
  State Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization: Will it Survive? 
• Gay, William C.
  Globalization, the Problem of War, and Normative Issues  
• Korotayev, Andrey; Zinkina, Julia; Bogevolnov, Justislav; Malkov, Artemy
  Global Unconditional Convergence among Larger Economies after 1998? 
• Rozanov, A.
  Combating International Terrorism in the Context of Globalization  
• Leonova, Olga
  New Geopolitical Trends in the Globalized World 
• Chumakov, Alexander N.
  Culture in the Global World: Between Dialogue and Conflict 
• Drobot, G.
  The Issue of Global Governance in the Context of International Relations The-ory 
• Klimenko, Vladimir V.; Tereshin, Alexey G.
  World Energy and Climate in the Twenty-First Century in the Context of Historical Trends: Clear Constraints to the Future Growth  

II. Long Cycles: Economic and Political Aspects

• Thompson, William R.
  K-Waves, Technological Clustering, and Some of Its Implications  
• Berry, Brian J. L.; Dean, Denis J.
  Long Waves in American Politics. Part One: Takeoff Presidencies  
• Elliott, Euel; Berry, Brian J. L.
  Long Waves in American Politics. Part Two: The Obama Question  
• Van Vossole, J
  Long Waves of Political Contestation  
• Herrmann, Peter
  Indicators – More than Evidence and Maths  
• Ternyik, Stephen I.
  World System Energetics 

Part IV. Energy and Climate

• Thompson, William R.
  Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications 
• Sayamov, Yury
  Strategic Stability and the Role of the Global Energy Sphere 
• Khan, Mohammad Mohabbat; Islam, Md. S.
  Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: Does Globalization Act as a Facilitator? 
• Klimenko, Vladimir V.; Tereshin, Alexey G.
  Shale Gas: An Energy Miracle or a Climate Disaster? 

III. Kondratieff Medal: Winners' Speeches

• Mączyńska, Elżbieta
  Kondratieff – Ethos – Economics 
• Thompson, William R.
  Revising a Long-term Perspective on Kondratieff Phenomena 
• Nefiodow, Leo
  The Sixth Kondratieff – The New Long Wave of the Global Economy 

III. Trends and Forecasts

• Grinin, Anton L.
  Self-Regulation as a Global Evolutionary Mega-Trend  
• Hookes, David
  Science-Based Global Enlightenment in the Quantum-Digital Age (or How to Prevent the Earth from Becoming a Dead Planet) 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Global Population Ageing, the Sixth Kondratieff Wave, and the Global Financial System 

III. Modeling and Theories

• Harper, Tony
  An Equation-Based Systems Approach to Modeling Punctuated Equilibria Apparent in the Macropattern of Urbanization over Time 
• Panov, Alexander
  Dynamical Generalizations of the Drake Equation: The Linear and Non-linear Theories  

Part IV. POSITIVE VS NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION AND THE VIEW IN THE FUTURE

• Linke, Michael
  Connecting Logistics Networks Globally Via the UN Single Window Concept 
• Ivanov, Dmitry
  New Forms of Inequality and Structures of Glam-Capitalism 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  The Inflationary and Deflationary Trends in the Global Economy, or ‘the Japanese Disease’ is Spreading 
• Frey, R. Scott; Cui, Wanjun
  Infant Mortality in the World-System 
• Reuveny, Rafael
  Illegal Immigrants in High Income Countries and Politically Autonomous Units: Recent Estimated Stocks by Country and Unit 
• Kemp, Peter
  Creating the Human Community 
• Kochurov, Nikolay V.; Leonova, Olga
  Contemporary Russian and Foreign Science on the Twenty-First Century Tendencies in Globalization: A Brief Introduction 
• Kurtz, Donald V.; Fustes, Manuel
  The Politics of Global Warming: Sciemocracy and the Rescue of the Kobayashi Maru 
• Herrmann, Peter
  Potentials for Taking a Strategic Role for Sustainable Sociability 
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Digital Economy: Formation, Development and Implementation 
• Berry, Brian J. L.; Elliott, Euel
  The Surprise that Transforms. An American Perspective on What the 2040s Might Bring 

Historical and Theoretical Aspects

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Long-Wave Dynamics Research in Historical and Theoretical Aspects 

Discussion. Evolution: pro et contra

• Sandstrom, Gregory
  Peace for Evolution's Puzzle: The Arrival of Human Extension 
• Claessen, Henri J. M.
  A New Theory or a New Ideology? Reply to Gregory Sandstrom 

Part 4. PERSPECTIVES AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

• Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.
  Contemporary Globalization and New Civilizational Formations  
• Robertson, Roland
  The ‘Return’ of Religion and the Conflicted Condition of World Order  
• Laszlo, Ervin
  Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window  
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Global Processes and Their Dynamics: Two Paradigms of Development  
• Grinin, Leonid
  The Leadership in the Future Global World or Chinese Joker in the World Pack 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  The Coming Epoch of New Coalitions: Possible Global Scenarios  

III. The Sixth Wave and Future of Technologies

• Nefiodow, Leo
  The Sixth Kondratieff. The Growth Engine of the 21st Century  
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  The Sixth Kondratieff Wave and the Cybernetic Revolution  

Part V. Future and Forecasts

• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  The Sixth Kondratieff Wave and the Cybernetic Revolution 
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Providing the Balance of Technological and Social Changes in Real-Time Regime Plus the Economic Growth 
• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Ursul, Arkadi A.; Ursul, Tatyana; Dugarova, Midegue
  From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals 

IV. Reviews and Notes

• Harper, Tony
  Review of L. E. Grinin, A. V. Korotayev ‘Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective’, Springer International Publishing; 2015 

IV. Reviews and Information

• Harper, Tony
  Review of Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev's ‘Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective’, Springer International Publishing, 2015 
• Richerson, Peter J.; Brewer, Joe
  Inaugural Meeting of the Cultural Evolution Society 

IV. Reviews and Notes

• Harper, Tony
  Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev's ‘Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective’, Springer International Publishing, 2015 

Contents

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. From the History of Humankind to Big History  

I. Patterns of Big History

• Chaisson, Eric J.
  Big History Trends and Patterns 
• LePoire, David
  Potential Nested Accelerating Returns Logistic Growth in Big History 
• Harper, Tony
  A Toy Model Mechanism for Greater-Than-Exponential Human Population Growth 

II. Hypotheses of Deep Big History

• Baker, David
  10500. The Darwinian Algorithm and a Possible Candidate for a ‘Unifying Theme’ of Big History 
• Gehrels, Tom
  The Chandra Multiverse  
• Grinin, Leonid
  Was There a Big Bang?  

III. Biological Aspects

• Lekevičius, Edmundas
  Ecological Darwinism or Preliminary Answers to Some Crucial though Seldom Asked Questions  
• Markov, Alexander V.; Valery A. Anisimov; Korotayev, Andrey
  Relationship Between Genome Size and Organismal Complexity in the Lineage Leading from Prokaryotes to Mammals  

IV. History and Future of Social Systems

• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  A Mathematical Model of Influence of the Interaction between Civilization Center and Barbarian Periphery on the World System Development  
• Thompson, William R.
  Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications  
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Technological Dimension of Big History and the Cybernetic Revolution  
• Dobrolyubov, Sergey V.
  Global Society as Singularity and the Point of Transi- tion to the New Phase of Social Evolution 
• Harper, Tony
  The Punctuated Equilibrium Macropattern of World System Urbanization and the Factors that Give Rise to that Macropattern  

The Spectrum of Opinions

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. The Heritage of N. D. Kondratieff in the Context of Modern Problems of the World Economy 

I. Long Waves in the Context of World Economy and Politics

• Berry, Brian J. L.; Dean, Denis J.; Elliott, Euel
  Jihadism on the Long-Wave Clock  
• Komlosy, Andrea
  Crises, Long Waves and World-System Analysis  
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  The Inflationary and Deflationary Trends in the Global Economy in the Light of the Long Cycles' Theory  
• Ternyik, Stephen I.
  The Supreme Kondratieff: Exponentiality, Teleology and the DNA of Economic History (The Future Balance of Wealth and Health)  
• Grinin, Leonid
  Kondratieff Waves, Technological Modes, and the Theory of Production Revolutions 

Evolutionary Trends, Aspects, and Patterns

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Universality and Inexhaustibility of Evolution 

I. Big History's Phases and Long-Term Trends

• LePoire, David
  Expansion and Integration Phases in the Major Stages of Big History 
• Last, Cadell
  Symbolic Orders and the Structure of Universal Internalization 

Part I. BIG HISTORY AND GLOBAL EVOLUTION

• Collado-Ruano, Javier
  Co-evolution in Big History: A Transdisciplinary and Biomimetic Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals  
• Dobrolyubov, Sergey V.
  Global Society as Singularity and Point of Transition to the New Phase of Social Evolution 
• Baskin, Ken
  Religion as the Ultimate Human Evolutionary Survival Strategy  
• Hookes, David
  The Need for the Second Solar-Digital Revolution: Advice and Warning from a Friendly, Alien Civilization  

Investigating Past and Future

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. From the Past to the Future 

I. History, Technologies, Politics, and Mathematics

• Harper, Tony
  A Quantitative Analysis of Reign Lengths of Pre- and Post-Taifa Periods and Taifa Kingdom Durations During the Existence of Al Andalus 
• Grinin, Leonid
  Kondratieff Waves, Technological Modes, and the Theory of Production Revolutions 
• Diebolt, Claude; Pellier, Karine
  Patents in the Long Run: Theory, History, and Statistics  
• Wajzer, Mateusz
  Political Violence and Evolutionary Game Theory: A Methodological Introduction 
• Kobzeva, Svetlana V.
  Digitalization of Global Governance in NBIC-Convergence Era  

Evolutionary Aspects: Stars, Primates, and Religion

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. Once More on Megaevolutionary Paradigm 

I. Megaevolution and Cosmic Evolution

• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Megaevolution and Its Main and Transitional Phases 
• Grinin, Leonid
  The Star-Galaxy Era and Universal Evolution 

I. Theoretical Aspects

• Komlosy, Andrea
  Entanglements of Catching-up: Rethinking ‘Industrial Revolution’ from a Global Perspective 
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  The Dynamics of Kondratieff Waves in the Light of the Theory of Production Revolutions  

II. Historical Aspects

• Berry, Brian J. L.
  Seven Long Waves in America's History 
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L. ; Korotayev, Andrey
  On Some Aspects of the History of Long-Wave Dynamics Research 
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L. ; Korotayev, Andrey
  The Technological Activity and Competition in the Middle Ages and Modern History: A Quantitative Analysis. 

III. Reviews, Notes, and Reflections

• Harper, Tony
  A Review of L. E. Grinin, A. V. Korotayev, and Arno Tausch ‘Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy’, Springer international Publishing; 2019 
• Diebolt, Claude
  Trend, Cycles and Chance 

Current and Future Trends in the Big History Perspective

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Ilyin, Ilya V.
  Preface 

Part I. THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL WORLD

• Widdowson, Marc
  Societal Impacts of Covid-19: Lessons from History for the Global Ecumene 
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  How Can Covid-19 Change Geopolitics and Economy? 
• Komlosy, Andrea
  Crises, Long Waves, and World-System Analysis 
• Kiss, Endre
  The Present Dialogue between Nature and Society or the Mutuality of Nature Preservation and Society Protection  
• Cupic, Tijana
  Women and Drug Trafficking – Women Empowerment in an Illicit Business? 
• Alalykin-Izvekov, Vladimir N.
  Pestilence as a Phenomenon: Past, Present, and Future 
• LePoire, David
  Preparing for the 21st Century Existential Risks  
• Aleshkovskii, Ivan; Bondarenko, Valentina
  Towards a New Paradigm of Global Development  

Part II. POLITICAL AND CULTURAL GLOBAL TRENDS

• Ilyin, Ilya V.; Leonova, Olga
  On ‘Non-Global’ Globalization and New Features of Political Globalization 
• Grinin, Leonid
  Islamism and Globalization 
• Vitorovic, Zoran; Santacroce, Luigi; Secibovic, Marijana; Gorokhov, Andrei
  Science Diplomacy: Science for Diplomacy, Diplomacy for Science  
• Espinoza Martínez, Kleidy Yanira
  The US Methods and Goals to Destabilize Venezuela 
• Widdowson, Marc
  Fission, Fusion and Quantisation in Global Political Evolution 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Zinkina, Julia; Slinko, Elena ; Meshcherina, Kira
  Human Values and Modernization: A Global Analysis  
• Kornienko, Olga
  Cultural Identity and Sexual Tolerance  
• Melokumov, Evgeny V.
  Peacemaking in Sobornost’: The Experience of the Russian People in the Great Patriotic War and the World Peace or Common Deed International Relations with the Principle of Equal Economic Security in the 21st Century 
• Althonayan, Abraham; Tarasova, Elizaveta E.; Isaenko, Elena V.
  The Role of Higher Educational Institutions in the Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)  
• Ahamer, Gilbert
  Transnational Quality Criteria for “Global Studies” Curricula 

Part III. BIG HISTORY STUDIES

• LePoire, David
  Exploring Time Patterns in Big History 
• Grinchenko, Sergey N.
  Ontogenesis of the Information Society and Phylogenesis of the Informational Personality in the Light of Cybernetics 
• Carbonell, Eudald; Hortolà, Policarp
  From Past Unaware Hominisation to Future Conscious Humanisation: Social Evolution in Perspective and Prospective 
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Big History and the Cybernetic Revolution: The Technological Dimension  
• Korotayev, Andrey; LePoire, David
  The Singularity in Big History 
• Widdowson, Marc
  Can Humanity Escape the Earth?  
• Grinin, Anton L. ; Grinin, Leonid
  Are We on the Threshold of Cyborgization? 

Historical and Technological Dynamics: Factors, Cycles, and Trends

• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Introduction. On the Forms, Patterns and Modes of Evolutionary Development 

I. Long-term Dynamics Factors

• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L. ; Korotayev, Andrey
  Technological Dynamics since 40,000 BP to the 22nd Century 
• LePoire, David
  Long-term Dynamics of Ruling Structures in the West, China, and Russia 

II. Political Cyclicity and Trends

• Dobrolyubov, Sergey V.
  Simple Bifactorial Model of Structural Cycles Applied to Russian History 
• Widdowson, Marc
  Global Fear and Long Range Political Cycles: A Mathematical Model 
• Korotayev, Andrey
  Political Centralization and Communal Complexity in Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspective 

III. Technological Dynamics and Phases

• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  The Dynamics of Kondratieff Waves in the Light of the Theory of Production Revolutions 
• Widdowson, Marc
  From Covid-19 to Zero-Gravity: Complex Crises and Production Revolutions 

II. Kondratieff Medal: Winners' Speeches

• Phillips, Fred
  Multiplicity and Divergence Challenge the Social Sciences (Gold medal) 
• Berry, Brian J. L.
  From Patterns in Space to Rhythms in Time: A Personal Odyssey (Silver medal) 
• Fraihat, Ibrahim
  A Journey of Knowledge: When Theory, Research, and Practice Met, I Became Who I Am (Bronze medal) 
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  The Intellectual Potential of a New Methodological Approach to the Cognition of the Future and Formation of the Strategy for Its Achievement (Gold medal) 
• Minakir, Pavel A.
  Crisis: Economic or Institutional? (Gold medal) 
• Nusratullin, Vil K.
  The Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of the New Scientific Paradigm for Solving the Social and Economic Problems of Modernity (Silver medal) 
• Dudin, Mikhail N.
  Strategic Management of Sustainable Development of Business Entities, Taking into Account the Kondratieff – Schumpeter Cycles (in Terms of the Wave Nature of the Innovative Economy) (Bronze medal) 
• Rumyantseva, Svetlana Yu.
  Long Waves and Other Economic Cycles: Navigation Prospects (Bronze medal) 
• Grinin, Anton L.
  The Possibilities of the Kondratieff Long Wave Theory in Forecasting of a New Technological Revolution (Commemorative medal) 
• Arkhipova, Violetta V.
  The Effects of World Capital Flows: Genesis and Distribution of Crisis Processes (Commemorative medal) 
• Komarevtseva, Olga O.
  On Some Directions for the Development of the Russian Economy (Commemorative medal) 
• Malakhova, Tatiana
  The Transformation of the World Economy in the Context of Global Instability (Commemorative medal) 
• Kozlov, Andrey E.
  Forecasting of the Enterprise's Social and Economic Potential (Commemorative medal) 

II. Cosmic Evolution

• Grinin, Leonid
  Was There a Big Bang? 
• Novoseltsev, Dmitry A.
  The Catalysis Project: On the Possibility of Purposeful Expansion of Intelligent Life in the Galaxy 
• Grinin, Leonid
  Evolution of the Early Solar System in Terms of Big History and Global Evolution 

Part II. HISTORICAL GLOBALISTICS

• Grinin, Leonid
  Revolutions and Historical Process 
• Korotayev, Andrey; Grinin, Leonid
  The Technological Activity and Competition in the Middle Ages and Modern History: A Quantitative Analysis 
• Berdan, Frances F.
  Late Postclassic Mesoamerican Trade Networks and Imperial Expansion 
• Smith, Michael E.
  Bounding Empires and Political/Military Networks with Archaeological Data 
• Grinin, Leonid
  The Processes of Systemic Integration in the World System  
• Korotayev, Andrey; Zinkina, Julia
  Systemic Boundary Issues in the Light of Mathematical Modeling of World-System Evolution 
• Gil-Osle, Juan Pablo
  Early Modern Globalized World: Gifts, Trifles, and Friendship 

II. Singularity

• LePoire, David
  A Potential Simple Analogous Heat Flow System to Explore Big History's Singularity Trend 
• Tsirel Sergey V.
  Technological Achievements of the Future as the Path of Destruction of Habitual Human Society? 

II. Biosocial and Social Evolution

• Butovskaya, Marina L.; Korotayev, Andrey; Kazankov, Alexander A.
  Dominance Styles and Variability of Social Relationships in Non-Human and Human Primates 
• Carbonell, Eudald; Hortolà, Policarp
  From Past Unaware Hominization to Future Conscious Humanization: Social Evolution in Retrospect and Prospect 
• Grinin, Leonid
  The World System since the Bronze Age: Systemic Integration and Divergence-Convergence Cycles 
• Szocik, Konrad
  What is Right and What is Wrong in the Darwinian Approach to the Study of Religion 

III. Reviews and Notes

• Harper, Tony
  Clarity in the Face of Immense World-System Comp-lexity and Crisis. Review of L. E. Grinin, A. V. Korota-yev, and Arno Tausch ‘Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery’, Springer International Publishing; 2016 
• Contributors 
• Guidelines 

III. The Aspects of Socio-Cultural and Political Evolution

• Skarzynski, Ryszard; Wajzer, Mateusz; Staniucha, Tymoteusz
  Mind and Vision: Social Evolution and the Origins of the Political 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Chiefdoms: From Archaic Polities to Modern Terrorist Organizations 
• Spooner, Brian
  What does Big History Do for the Study of Religion? 
• Baskin, Ken
  Religion as the Ultimate Human Evolutionary Survival Strategy 
• Gelis-Filho, Antonio
  Geoculture: Missing in Action 

Part III. EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS

• Berry, Brian J. L.; Dean, Denis J.
  Long Waves in American Politics. Takeoff Presidencies 
• Harper, Tony
  A Toy Model Mechanism for Greater-Than-Exponential Human Population Growth  
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today 
• Ranalli, Brent
  A New Model of Human Cultural History Centered on ‘Modes of Relating’ 

III. Beyond the Earth

• Widdowson, Marc
  Can Humanity Escape the Earth? 
• Novoseltsev, Dmitry A.
  The Catalysis Project: On the Possibility of Purposeful Expansion of Intelligent Life in the Galaxy  

III. Reviews and Notes

• Harper, Tony
  A Review of Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, and Arno Tausch's ‘Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy’, Springer International Publishing, 2019 
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey; Baker, David
  Beyond Global Studies. An Introductory Lecture into a Big History Course 
• Guidelines for Contributors 

IV. Looking from the Past into the Future

• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Technological Dimension of Big History and the Cybernetic Revolution 
• Dobrolyubov, Sergey V.
  Global Society as Singularity and Point of Transition to the New Phase of Social Evolution 
• Hookes, David
  The Need for the Second Solar-Digital Revolution: Advice and Warning from a Friendly, Alien Civilisation 
• Butler-Hookes, Johanna
  Agroecology vs Agribusiness in the Solar- Digital Age 
• Contributors 

Part IV. THE WORLD TODAY AND TOMORROW

• Komlosy, Andrea
  Crises, Long Waves and World System Analysis 
• Tausch, Arno
  Islamism and Antisemitism. Preliminary Evidence on Their Relationship from Crossnational Opinion Data  
• Aleshkovskii, Ivan; Mishchenko, Yana
  Russia’s Role in the Global Energy Markets 
• Cuéllar, Hortensia
  The Silk Route: A New Development Model? 
• Bondarenko, Valentina
  Conditions for Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Russia and the World 
• Kiss, Endre
  Essay on the New Globalization 
• Grinin, Leonid; Grinin, Anton L.
  Global Technological Perspectives in the Light of Cybernetic Revolution and Theory of Long Cycles 

IV. Reviews and Notes

• Harper, Tony
  A Review of Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, and Arno Tausch's ‘Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy’, Springer International Publishing, 2019 

IV. Nikolai D. Kondratieff's Heritage and the Economic Science

• Bondarenko, Valentina
  The Feat of Life and Creativity 
• Kondratieff, Nikolai
  M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky (The Main Features of His Scientific Worldview) 

Reviews and Notes

• Baker, David
  Proceedings of the Conference ‘Teaching and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field’ 

In Memoriam

• Thompson, William R.; Gills, B; Denemark, Robert A.; Chase-Dunn, Christopher
  George Modelski (1926–2014)