The Great Convergence and the World System Reconfiguration. Toward a New World Order

Springer, 2025.

Ahmed F., Amarasinghe P., Bielig A., Dygas R., Anton Grinin, Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A.

Under the general editorship: D. Robert

This series seeks to promote understanding of large-scale and long-term processes of social change, in particular the many facets and implications of globalization. It crit-ically explores the factors that affect the historical formation and current evolution of social systems, on both the regional and global level. Processes and factors that are examined include economies, technologies, geopolitics, institutions, conflicts, demo-graphic trends, climate change, global culture, social movements, global inequalities, etc. Building on world-systems analysis, the series addresses topics such as global-ization from historical and comparative perspectives, trends in global inequalities, core-periphery relations and the rise and fall of hegemonic core states, transnational institutions, and the long-term energy transition. This ambitious interdisciplinary and international series presents cutting-edge research by social scientists who study whole human systems and is relevant for all readers interested in systems approaches to the emerging world society, especially historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists.

Keywords: economic growth, BRICS, World Bank, globalisation, global governance, International Monetary Fund, international norms, geoeconomics, emerging powers, Belt and Road Initiative, power shifts, Western hegemony, multipolar world order, geopolitics, global trade routes, global economic power shifts

Publication based on the results of: State Resilience and National Security of Russia in the Context of the World Order Transformation (2025)