Investigation Into Control of the Global Social System

Applied System and Control Sciences to Social Systems: Globalization Age Paradigms

“…It may well be argued that, nearly twenty years after the end of the so-called bipolar world during the Cold War era, world-wide general public awareness is shifting towards a rather critical perception of modern civilization as a unipolar world (Kile, 2005;Schefran, 2001;Wagner, 1994) endangered by negative global consequences such as environmental pollution, global warming, the so-called "north-south gap", and terrorism. Even some kind of global dictatorship cannot be excluded, the systemic structure of which remarkably resembles such known events in developed countries in the not so distant past (e.g., see Mansour, 2001;.…”

“…On the other hand, globalization has faced the contemporary civilization with a remarkably negative civic reaction, in particular with the red to issues of the climate change and the gap "developed-developing" ("North-South gap"), which is growing and expanding rapidly as the actual globalization process develops and as the related political and scientific discussion forums expand (Kile, 2001(Kile, , 2005Kile and Dimirovski, 2008;Kopacek and Stapleton, 2004;Kopacek, 2006). This negative civic reaction is not only internationalized, but getting more and more organised so that rumors about any kind of anti-globalization movement spread world-wide.…”