Globalistics and Globalization Studies. Global Transformations and Global Future. Yearbook

Introduction. How Global Can Be Global Future? (by
Leonid Grinin, Ilya Ilyin, Peter Herrmann, and Audrey
Korotayev)
Part I. Big History and Global History
David Baker. 10500. The Darwinian Algorithm and a
Possible Candidate for a 'Unifying Theme' of Big History
Ken Baskin. The Dynamics of Evolution: What
Complexity Theory Suggests for Big History's Approach
to Biological and Cultural Evolution
Barry Rodrigue. Retrofitting the Future
Daniel Little. Nation, Region, and Globe: Alternative
Definitions of Place in World History
Julia Zinkina, Audrey Korotayev, and Aleksey Andreev.
Mass Primary Education in the Nineteenth Century
Julia Zinkina, Audrey Korotayev, and Ilya Ilyin. The
Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Global Secondary
and Higher Education
Peter Herrmann, Fan Hong, and Remi Rzepka.
Education in an International Setting
Leonid Grinin, Ilya Ilyin, and Alexey Andreev. Global
History and Future World Order
Part II. Global Demography
Jack A. Goldslone. Population Ageing and Global
Economic Growth
Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev. Global Population
Ageing, the Sixth Kondratieff Wave, and the Global
Financial System
Andrey Korotayev, Jack A. Goldstone, Julia Zinkina,
Sergey Shulgin, Daria Khaltourina, and Daria Bykauova.
Mathematical Modeling and Forecasting of the
Demographic Future of Russia: Seven Scenarios
Ivan Aleshkovski. International Migration Trends in the
Era of Globalization
Miriam Farhi-Rodrig. Global Migration: A Transnational
Problem
Part III. Aspects of Globalization and International
Politics
Paul A. Smit. Transnational Labour Relations in SADC:
Regional Integration or Regional Globalisation?
Endre Kiss. Constructivity and Destructivity in the
Globalization, as a Background of the Problematic of
Peace
Stanislav Bilyuga, Alisa Shishkina, Julia Zinkina, and
Audrey Korotayev. Global Correlation between GDP Per
Capita and the Level of Sociopolitical Destabilization
between 1960 and 2014: A Preliminary Quantitative
Analysis
Olga Kornienko. Social and Economic Background of
Blending
Oleg Alekseenko and llya Ilyin. The Grand Theories of
Integration Process and Development of Global
Communication Networks
Alexander Lenger and Florian Schumacher. The Social
Functions of Sport: A Theoretical Approach to the
Interplay of Emerging Powers, National Identity, and
Global Sport Events
Ilya Ilyin, Stanislav Bilyuga, and Sergey Malkov. The
Empirical Analysis of the Voting Results in the UN
General Assembly
Olga Leonova. Global Regionalization as a Phenomenon
of Globalization
Olga Kolesnichenko, Alexander Rozanov, and Liu Dehin.
The Role of BR1CS in Global Politics
Part IV. Energy and Climate
William R. Thompson. Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead
Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications
Yury Sayamov. Strategic Stability and the Role of the
Global Energy Sphere
Mohammad Mohabbat Khan and Md. Shahriar Islam.
Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries:
Does Globalization Act as a Facilitator?
Vladimir Klimenko and Alexey Tereshin. Shale Gas: An
Energy Miracle or a Climate Disaster?
Part V. Future and Forecasts
Leonid Grinin and Anton Grinin. The Sixth Kondratieff
Wave and the Cybernetic Revolution
Valentina Bondarenko. Providing the Balance of
Technological and Social Changes in Real-Time Regime
Plus the Economic Growth
Ilya Ilyin, Arkady Ursul, Tatyana Ursul, and Midegue
Dugarova. From Millennium Development Goals to
Sustainable Development Goals
Contributors to the volume