Is globalization self-organizing?
20/12/07 16:52 Filed in: publicatons
In:
Globalization as evolutionary
process: Modeling, simulating, and forecasting
global change, edited by George Modelski
and Tessalino Devezas and William R. Thompson.
2007. London: Routledge.
The observance
of a relatively stable pattern of global system
development has often been criticised for the lack
of theoretical underpinnings of its pulsating
behavior. This paper contributes to the growing
literature that combines complex system
explanations with theories of global system
development, providing a generational perspective
on the rise and demise of centers of socio-economic
leadership. It argues, that the pattern of roughly
one-hundred year long waves of alternating
leadership clusters - characterized by their
innovative development of a coherent
socio-technological paradigm - can be empirically
traced and analyzed through the observance of a
three-step generational cohort pattern, what is
termed here as the ``Buddenbrook cycle.'' Based of
innovations originating in new forms of
socio-technological behavior of the first
generation, the following second generation groomed
in this new environment, transforms these
innovations into a coherent socio-technological
paradigm, whereas the third generation remains
``stuck'' in this formerly superior paradigm,
unable to adapt to emerging new alternative
socio-technological innovations, and allowing new
socio-economic innovations to arise in alternative
and geographically separate clusters.
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Address = {London},
Author = {Joachim K. Rennstich},
Booktitle = {Globalization as evolutionary process: Modeling, simulating, and forecasting global change},
Editor = {George Modelski and Tessalino Devezas and William R. Thompson},
Keywords = {complex systems; evolutionary models; long-cycles; generational theory},
Pages = {88--108},
Publisher = {Routledge},
Title = {Is globalization self-organizing?},
Year = {2007},
Abstract = {The observance of a relatively stable pattern of global system development has often been criticised for the lack of theoretical underpinnings of its pulsating behavior. This paper contributes to the growing literature that combines complex system explanations with theories of global system development, providing a generational perspective on the rise and demise of centers of socio-economic leadership. It argues, that the pattern of roughly one-hundred year long waves of alternating leadership clusters - characterized by their innovative development of a coherent socio-technological paradigm - can be empirically traced and analyzed through the observance of a three-step generational cohort pattern, what is termed here as the ``Buddenbrook cycle.'' Based of innovations originating in new forms of socio-technological behavior of the first generation, the following second generation groomed in this new environment, transforms these innovations into a coherent socio-technological paradigm, whereas the third generation remains ``stuck'' in this formerly superior paradigm, unable to adapt to emerging new alternative socio-technological innovations, and allowing new socio-economic innovations to arise in alternative and geographically separate clusters.},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.routledge.com/books/Globalization-as-Evolutionary-Process-isbn9780415773614}}
BibTeX
@inbook{Rennstich2007aa,
Address = {London},
Author = {Joachim K. Rennstich},
Booktitle = {Globalization as evolutionary process: Modeling, simulating, and forecasting global change},
Editor = {George Modelski and Tessalino Devezas and William R. Thompson},
Keywords = {complex systems; evolutionary models; long-cycles; generational theory},
Pages = {88--108},
Publisher = {Routledge},
Title = {Is globalization self-organizing?},
Year = {2007},
Abstract = {The observance of a relatively stable pattern of global system development has often been criticised for the lack of theoretical underpinnings of its pulsating behavior. This paper contributes to the growing literature that combines complex system explanations with theories of global system development, providing a generational perspective on the rise and demise of centers of socio-economic leadership. It argues, that the pattern of roughly one-hundred year long waves of alternating leadership clusters - characterized by their innovative development of a coherent socio-technological paradigm - can be empirically traced and analyzed through the observance of a three-step generational cohort pattern, what is termed here as the ``Buddenbrook cycle.'' Based of innovations originating in new forms of socio-technological behavior of the first generation, the following second generation groomed in this new environment, transforms these innovations into a coherent socio-technological paradigm, whereas the third generation remains ``stuck'' in this formerly superior paradigm, unable to adapt to emerging new alternative socio-technological innovations, and allowing new socio-economic innovations to arise in alternative and geographically separate clusters.},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.routledge.com/books/Globalization-as-Evolutionary-Process-isbn9780415773614}}
Book review: Territory, authority, rights: From medieval to global assemblages
18/06/07 17:03 Filed in: publicatons
Rennstich, J. K.
(2007). Book review of "Territory, authority,
rights: From medieval to global assemblages".
Perspectives on Politics, 5(2):416–417.
Book review of Sassen, Saskia. 2006. Territory, authority, rights: From medieval to global assemblages. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Book review of Sassen, Saskia. 2006. Territory, authority, rights: From medieval to global assemblages. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.