Reconsidering the Limits to Growth / World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures (PDF)

of the International Public Organization for the Promotion of Public Diplomacy, Scientific, Educational and Youth Cooperation "Eurasian Commonwealth", Chief Scientific Secretary of the International Academy of Global Studies, Chairman of the Russian Committee and Vice President of the Intergovernmental Council for the UNESCO Program "Management of Social Transformations - MOST", an honorary worker in the field of state youth policy and education, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Bulletin of Moscow University. Series 27. Global Studies and Geopolitics".



Sergey Malkov heads the Center for Long-Term Forecasting and Strategic Planning at the Moscow State University (Russia). He also works as a Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow (Russia). Malkov is the author of over 300 scholarly publications, including, among others: Social self-organization and historical process: possibilities of mathematical modeling (URSS, 2009), Modeling and forecasting of world dynamics (ISPI RAS, 2012, with V. A. Sadovnichy et. al), A new theory of the reproduction of capital: development and practical application (Nestor-Istoriya, 2016, together with V. I. Mayevsky and others), The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. A Big History Perspective (Springer, 2020, with David J. LePoire et. al).



Leonid Grinin is a Senior Research Professor at the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow (Russia), as well as a Senior Research Professor at the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies, as well as co-editor of the international almanacs History & Mathematics, Evolution, and Kondratieff Waves. He is the author of more than 600 publications,including 30 books in Russian, English, and Chinese. His current research focuses on comparative political studies, theory of revolution, political anthropology, global economy, global history, historical sociology, and futurology. In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.



Andrey Korotayev heads the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow (Russia). He further is a Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as at the Faculty of Global Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He has authored or co-authored over 650 scholarly publications, including books such as Ancient Yemen (Oxford University Press, 1995), World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Compact Macromodels of the World System Growth (URSS, 2006; with Daria Khaltorina and Artemy Malkov), Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Secular Cycles and Millennial Trends (URSS, 2006; with Daria Khaltorina and Artemy Malkov), Great Divergence and Great Convergence. A Global Perspective (Springer, 2015; with Leonid Grinin), Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery (Springer, 2016; with Leonid Grinin), Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy. World System and World Values Perspectives (Springer, 2019; with Leonid Grinin and Arno Tausch). He is a laureate of a Russian Science Support Foundation for 'The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Nomination (2006); in 2012 he was awarded the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.