Roin METREVELI

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Roin Metreveli, Chairman of the National Committee of Historians of Georgia, Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia).

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NATIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE GLOBALIZATION CONTEXT AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

ABSTRACT

The author has undertaken the challenging task of tracing the impact of globalization on nation-states, society, national economies, and global relationships, as well as on the fates of very specific ethnic cultures. Much space is given to contradictions among civilizations rooted in the past and kept alive not only by economic and sociopolitical, but also by psychological factors. The specifics of the last decade of the 20th century were determined by the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union’s disintegration, two factors that accelerated globalization.

In Lieu of an Introduction: Civilizational Contradictions

How will globalization affect the nation-state? Will it upset the cohesion of national society? How will globalization affect national economic development? What will happen to traditional centuries-old cultures? Societies are concerned about these and other questions and are waiting for well-substantiated and reasonable answers. It will take some time to formulate them. Real results alone may supply the answers—either positive or………..

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