Globalization and Current Civilizational Developments

• Main Author: Yuri Pavlenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman 2004-12-01
• Series: International Economic Policy
• Subjects: Globalization; uneven development; civilization; global transformational processes; information society
• Online Access: http://iepjournal.com/journals_eng/2/2005_1_Pavlenko_eng.pdf

While the essence of globalization is humanity’s evolution into a single structural and functional system, recently, however, the contradictions of globalization and attendant civilizational and regional trends are be coming more prevalent. These trends are investigated in this article in terms of their informationtechnological, economic, social, political, demographic and cultural as pects. The article shows that the only productive adop tion of Western achievements by other civilizations re sults from the selective and purposeful adaptation of local mentalities, cultures, values, conditions and be havioral stereotypes.