Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe.

Civilizational Dynamics of “Hybrid Warfare”

Since the end of the Cold War, analysts have struggled to make sense of the proliferation of smaller scale conflicts. Several labels have been used to describe this phenomenon, the most recent being “Hybrid Warfare.” This paper attempts to analyze them through the perspective of civilizational theory. Very rarely, however,…

David Christian. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

What is history? Or rather, what are the appropriate time-scales that can be constituted as “history”? The general consensus among scholars is that history is the study of approximately the last 5,000 years or so due to the existence of written records. Anything prior to that is generally considered pre-history,…

Leonid Grinin. Macrohistory and Globalization

The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is once quoted as saying, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” There should be a parallel statement about how some books state extraordinarily little in multiple pages, but others speak volumes in mere sentences. A good example of…

MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–۲۰۵۰

Carl von Clausewitz famously declared “War is but the continuation of politics by other means.” It could just as easily be declared that war is the continuation of civilization by other means, concerning how different societies and cultures fight can be reflective of their distinct characters as much as any…

From Brinton To Goldstone: A Scientific Civilizational Perspective On The Theory Of Revolution

In order to adequately investigate the complex and volatile phenomenon of revolution, we ought to place it within a relevant scientific field of knowledge. The theoretical and methodological foundations of such a field, named Civilizational Science, have been developed by Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov (Alalykin-Izvekov, 2011). The analysis of the phenomenon of…