Global studies and globalistics: The evolutionary dimension

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Note that Globalistics as an integral academic discipline (with its own name and research agenda) emerged in Russia/the USSR earlier than in any other country of the world. Today globalization can be treated as the most important global process. It is a multi-faceted phenomenon and in every country it has its own image. One can get a truly objective picture of the rapidly changing and integrating world only through a synthesis of all those particular visions. In the present anthology one can find perceptions of globalization by a number of famous scholars from different countries of the world (Ervin Laszlo, Roland Robertson, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Randall Collins, Christopher Chase-Dunn, William Thompson and others), but one can also get to know rather peculiar visions of globalization by the Russian scientists. Ilyin, I. V., and Ursul, A. D. 2009. Evolutionary Globalistics (The Conception of Evolution of Global Processes). Moscow: Moscow University Press. In Russian. Development of Globalistics and similar disciplines [2] suggests that some other fields of academic research may find themselves under the influence of ‘global attractor’. One may well expect that names and more and more traditional fields of academic research will get a ‘global prefix’.

On the basis of the above mentioned ideas we may formulate our vision of peculiarities of educating a specialist in global processes. Mazour, I. I., and Chumakov, A. N. 2006. (Eds.). Globalistics: International Cross-Disciplinary Dictionary. Moscow: Elima; Piter. In Russian.Part 1 ( Historical Dimension) comprises articles analyzing some important long-term global processes (global urbanization, global political development, and so on) in historical retrospective. Abylgaziev, I. I., Ilyin, I. V., and Kefeli, I. F. 2010. (Eds.). Global Geopolitics. Moscow: Moscow State University. In Russian. Thus, the world community of present-day scientists appears as a global system of people united by the work in the scientific field of Globalistics and integrating a creative impulse to investigate and solve the global human problems. The scientific worldview and structure of science are changing; and in future it will lead to more important transformations in the scientific and educational system of human civilization. Keywords: Globalistics, global systems, global processes, global problems, interdisciplinary, synthetic conception of Globalistics, Evolutionary Globalistics, Paleoglobalistics. Saul, John Ralston (2009-09-22). The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition: And The Reinvention Of The World. Penguin Canada. ISBN 978-0-14-317480-6.

Martell, Luke (2007). "The Third Wave in Globalization Theory" (PDF). International Studies Review. 9 (2): 173–196. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2007.00670.x. Kolko, Joyce; Kolko, Gabriel (1972). The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945–1954. New York, NY: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-012447-2. Most articles presented in this anthology have already been published in various academic periodicals [3] and almanacs (though some of them are published here for the first time). Machlup, Fritz (1977). A History of Thought on Economic Integration. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-04298-7.

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Today we can observe the predominance of ‘morphological’ task-solving pattern in Globalistics, whereas it is necessary to pay much more attention to historical and forecasting aspects of Global Studies. In the present anthology one can find perceptions of globalization by a number of famous scholars from various countries of the world (Ervin Laszlo, Roland Robertson, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Randall Collins, Christopher Chase-Dunn, William Thompson and others), but one can also get to know rather peculiar visions of globalization by the Russian scientists and scholars. We have no doubt that in this respect the present volume could be of special interest, as Russia is a place where the Western and non-Western ideas and cultural processes have been meeting for centuries. In this respect Russia is a suitable country for the publication of a book with the aims outlined above. Dwivedi, O.P.; Kich, M. (2013). Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age: Interdisciplinary Essays. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p.45. ISBN 978-0-7864-7552-0 . Retrieved 2023-01-20. Ashcroft, B. (2013). Post-Colonial Transformation. Taylor & Francis. p.211. ISBN 978-1-134-55695-3 . Retrieved 2023-01-20. As an example we can mention the implementation of global ecological and geoecological knowledge into the academic process, which is an element of a general educational conception: at FGS MSU a series of related courses is realized with the aim of ‘ecologization’ of the future graduate's scientific worldview. The most efficient model of such a set of courses is the following sequence: general ecology – global natural processes – global ecology (Ilyin and Ivanov 2009).

Earlier the growth of knowledge took place most effectively in the framework of particular academic disciplines through further differentiation and specialization of science; now this tends to be achieved through interdisciplinary processes of knowledge synthesis, as well as synthesis of fundamental and applied researches. Global Studies are rapidly becoming leaders of modern scientific-education processes, as well as a basis of modern scientific worldview. Steger, Manfred B. (2008). The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199286935.All global problems can be analyzed at regional and local levels. The most fundamental and practically effective studies of global systems, processes and problems are achieved thorough mass collection and studying of material in local and separate regions and the subsequent comparison, generalization and understanding at the global scale as the correlation of global processes at different levels is obvious and predetermined by general principles of their development.

Mazour, I. I., Chumakov, A. N., and Gay, W. 2006. (Eds.). Global Studies. International Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow; St-Peterburg; New-York: Dialog; Elima; Piter. James, Paul; Steger, Manfred B. (2010). Globalization and Culture, Volume IV: Ideologies of Globalism. London: Sage Publications.

Broad interpretation and perception of Globalistics and the criteria of globality is also necessary, which implies a universal character of global processes; space-time perception; considering the latest achievements in the studies of global natural processes. It is obvious that a ‘global-scientific’ and universal interdisciplinary approach is necessary.