1st Edition
Megatrends of World Politics Globalization, Integration and Democratization
Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping the future of world politics and international relations, and demonstrates their effects in today’s global processes.
The authors of this book discuss the essence of these three megatrends of world politics, describing their dynamic and non-linear development, and exploring how they manifest themselves. Assessing megatrends of world politics makes it possible to predict further global political development. The authors proceed from several assumptions: (1) megatrends are global – they operate everywhere around the globe, although with different intensity and in diverse forms; (2) they influence and sometimes generate a variety of other trends in today’s world politics; and (3) megatrends are political. The three megatrends — globalization, integration, and democratization — are identified and justified based on these three parameters, then the authors analyze the influence and manifestation of megatrends in various spheres of world politics, including terrorism, transregionalism, communication technologies, migration, pandemics, and subnational regions.
This book will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of international relations and adjacent fields who are studying the trajectories of global development, globalization, integration, and democratization.
1 Megatrends and their reverse waves
MARINA M. LEBEDEVA
2 Taming the waves of globalization and democratization: Global Governance of Megatrends
MAXIM KHARKEVICH
3 Subnational actors in the context of megatrends
SERGEY ARTEEV, EKATERINA SHLAPEKO, AND IVAN ULISES KENTROS KLYSZCZ
4 Megatrends and socio-humanitarian resources of world politics
LEILI RUSTAMOVA
5 Megatrends in world politics and technological development
ELENA ZINOVIEVA
6 Transregional integration amid megatrends
DENIS A. KUZNETSOV
7 Megatrends in the “Age of Migration”
DARIA KAZARINOVA
8 Changing diasporas: (De)structuring by and of megatrends
IVAN D. LOSHKARIOV
9 Nationalism and Religious Fundamentalism as challenges to megatrends of world development
KSENIA BORISHPOLETS
10 Megatrends of world politics in the face of international terrorism’s challenges
HASAN R. JABBARINASIR, BAHRI KH. BAHRIEV, AND ALI M. RAJABZADEH
11 Hybridization as a result of megatrends in modern education
PETR KASATKIN AND AMINA MAKAROVA
12 COVID-19 and world politics: Does pandemic reverse the megatrends?
MARINA M. LEBEDEVA AND DENIS A. KUZNETSOV
Biography
Marina M. Lebedeva is Professor and Head of the World Politics Department in the Faculty of Governance and Politics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Russia.
Denis A. Kuznetsov is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Governance and Politics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Russia.
