Global studies and globalistics: The evolutionary dimension

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Jenne, Erin K.; Bozóki, András; Visnovitz, Péter (2022-06-21). Antisemitic Tropes, Fifth-Columnism, and 'Soros-Bashing': The Curious Case of Central European University. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197627938.003.0003.

Ivanov, A. V. 2004. Coevolution of Geospheres: Elements of Biniology and Complexity Studies. Biniology, Simmetrology and Complexity Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 8–12). Tyumen: TSOG University Press. In Russian. Keywords: Globalistics, global systems, global processes, global problems, interdisciplinary, synthetic conception of Globalistics, Evolutionary Globalistics, Paleoglobalistics. A characteristic example here is provided by Geopolitics that was born with such a status that was rather close to global, and that becomes more and more global every year (see Abylgaziev, Ilyin, and Kefeli 2010). As regards a wide range of factors, which nowadays determine the conditions and development of international relations, the research carried out by the Faculty can be characterized by an interdisciplinary approach and integration of education, training, research, and practice. At the same time, the research contributes to the development and improvement of the teaching process, introduction of innovative scientific achievements into the training courses, students' involvement into practical scientific work. The following issues are studied at the Faculty:

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It is necessary to work out a synthetic scientific perception of globalisation, global natural and anthropogenic systems, processes and problems. It is necessary to have a broad system and evolutionary approach in the interdisciplinary realization as well as to encourage the collaborative research by scientists and scholars. A global process cannot be understood and a global problem cannot be solved by efforts within the framework of a certain discipline – their broad interaction is necessary. 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’. 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.

Besides, Globalistics should involve modern approaches, which have been developed in different scientific fields to a larger extent. They include, for instance, the Complexity Studies approach, the ecological approach ( i.e. understanding Ecology as scientific research of interaction between systems of different organization levels), crosscutting evolutionary approach to comprehend global processes through the conception of coevolution of geospheres ( i.e. the perception of the things happening today through the prism of the integral global history of the Earth, life and humankind) and a broad application of mathematical methods to the modelling of global systems and processes. FGS MSU encounters a task to create and approve an optimum curriculum, which allows preparing specialists in Globalistics with a wide outlook of a classical university graduate, on the one hand, and who is in demand in the job market, on the other hand. In spite of a humanitarian character of the major in Globalistics, the scientific-educational strategy of FGS MSU foresees a serious filling with natural sciences and regards Globalistics as a synthetic scientific-humanitarian direction. Such a synthesis can be achieved primarily with a wide implementation of global ecological aspects. Ashcroft, B. (2001). On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of a Colonial Culture. Writing past colonialism series. Bloomsbury Academic. p.77. ISBN 978-0-8264-5226-9 . 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). Globalistics is a very young academic field, that is why it has a large number of unresolved problems. It has not been fully incorporated yet into the system of academic disciplines. An attempt to contribute to the solving of this problem has been undertaken in a recently published monograph (Ilyin and Ursul 2009), where Globalistics is considered as a very important element of the system of integrative-scientific knowledge that forms the modern scientific worldview based on the principles of global evolutionism. This system of knowledge emerges in the way of interdisciplinary synthesis and integrative processes within sciences. Meanwhile, one should not reduce global crisis to figures and statistics, as this is also a humanitarian crisis that reveals a larger problem of absence of a single synthetic global conception. The creation and development of this conception can be considered as the key strategic task for the academic community and it is a priority for the Faculty of Global Studies at Moscow State University. 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.

Ilyin, I. V., and Ivanov, A. V. 2009. Introduction to Global Ecology. Moscow: Moscow University Press. In Russian. Second, at present it is impossible to talk about only natural or about only anthropogenic global systems, processes and problems. They have a complex natural and anthropogenic character and in future the interaction and coevolution of natural and anthropogenic components will progress. It is expedient to consider socionatural global systems, processes and problems together with natural ones (Abylgaziev et al. 2011). Elements of geoecological knowledge are included in some courses, which according to the curriculum are taught to the students of FGS MSU. Teaching of elements of geoecology and global ecology starts with the discipline ‘Introduction to Globalistics’. The starting course is a set of lectures concentrated directly on global ecological problems and processes. General questions within the boundaries of natural sciences are included in the discipline ‘Conceptions of Modern Natural Science’. Hence, due to the fact that Globalistics appears to be a more integral and systemic direction than Global Studies, it seems possible that this term will be able to fill a certain lacuna in the English academic thesaurus. Basing ourselves on this point (but also wishing to reflect some specific features of development of Global Studies in Russia) we have decided to name the present anthology Globalistics and Globalization Studies. Globalization is a very broad concept not only with respect to the diversity of regions, cultures, and actors, but also with respect to the diversity of analytical approaches that can be employed to its study. In this book we are striving to cover various aspects and dimensions of globalization, to see both its local and global manifestations.

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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. Globalistics is a young scientific field at its early stages of establishment as an interdisciplinary course and the issues of staffing and educational basis are of crucial importance. How should globalistic research be developed? How can the results of this research be incorporated into the teaching process so that the university graduates obtain a wide range of knowledge, world outlook and competence to analyze and solve the on-going processes and problems at the global scale? Ilya V. Ilyin and Arkadi D. Ursul. Global Evolutionism: Theoretical and Methodological Problems (Full text) 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).

Rosenboim, Or (2017). The Emergence of Globalism. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-8523-7. JSTOR j.ctt1q1xrts. Sales, Ben (6 April 2017). "Stephen Bannon reportedly called Jared Kushner a 'globalist.' Here's why the term makes some Jews uneasy". Jewish Telegraphic Agency . Retrieved 2018-11-25. Political scientists Joseph Nye and Robert Keohane, major thinkers of liberal institutionalism as a new international relations theory, generalized the term to argue that globalism refers to any description and explanation of a world which is characterized by networks of connections that span multi-continental distances, while globalization refers to the increase or decline in the degree of globalism. [1] The term is used in a specific and narrow way to describe a position in the debate about the historical character of globalization, such as whether globalization is unprecedented or not. For example, this use of the term originated in, and continues to be used, in academic debates about the economic, social, and cultural developments that is described as globalization. [13]

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Andrey V. Korotayev and Leonid E. Grinin. Global Urbanization and Political Development of the World System (Full text) issues of globalization and regionalization in international collaboration and general issues of Globalistics methodology. 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. Third, there should be a wide use of modern scientific achievements: system theory, global evolutionism (Ilyin and Ursul 2009), the conception of noosphere structures (Khudyakov 1993), anatomy of crises, catastrophe theory (Arnold 2004), conceptions of coevolution of geospheres (Ivanov 2004), global-geopolitical views (Abylgaziev et al. 2010), study of global cities and others. Definitely, it is necessary to implement achievements in new directions of Globalistics – Paleoglobalistics (Gabdullin et al. 2010), Evolutionary Globalistics (Ilyin and Ursul 2009), Futuro-Globalistics and others.