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 

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 

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)