"Project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon." - T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a new approach to globalization / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson -- Globalization as evolutionary process / George Modelski -- The Portuguese as system builders : technological innovation in early globalization / Tessalino Devezas, George Modelski -- Measuring long-term processes of political globalization / William R. Thompson -- Is globalization self-organizing? / Joachim Karl Rennstich -- Theories of long-term change and the future of world political institutions / Fulvio Attinà -- Compact mathematical models of world system development : how they can help us to clarify our understanding of globalization processes / Andrey Korotayev -- Modeling periodic waves of integration in the Afro-Eurasian world system / Peter Turchin -- Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems / Douglas R. White, Laurent Tambayong, Natasa Kejzar -- Nature, disease, and globalization : an evolutionary perspective / Dennis Pirages -- Globalisation in history and the history of globalisation : the application of a globalisation model to historical research / Catia Antunes -- Three globalizing phases of the world system and modernity / Shumpei Kumon, Yasuhide Yamanouchi -- Accelerating socio-technological evolution : from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain / Francis Heylighen -- The growth of the Internet, long waves and global change / Tessaleno C. Devezas, Harold A. Linstone, Humberto João S. Santos -- The value to an evolutionary view to globalizing informatics research : one anthropologist's perspective / David Hakken -- Forecasting globalization : the use of international futures (IFs) / Barry B. Hughes -- On forecasting globalization using world models / Rafael Reuveny -- Evolution, modernization, and globalization : a theoretical and mathematical model / Jürgen Klüver, Christina Klüver -- Assessment : what has been learnt? / George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson.

The term globalisation has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. This book brings together leading international experts from a range of disciplines to develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalisation.