Global Science: The Last Option Before Collapse

Abdelhak Lamiri

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781035852000
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book presents the culmination of a 14-year pathbreaking research project examining the risks of civilisation collapse and potential solutions to avoid such an outcome. A profound diagnosis reveals that the root issue lies in the widening rift between the hard and social sciences, which have proven largely ineffective at managing the deficiencies of the former. Of course, the prevailing strategies, structures, and human resource management processes of modern nations have also played a significant role in destabilising societies. In economics, we still operate on principles of partial and general equilibrium, whereas we urgently need to adopt the global equilibrium framework proposed here. As things stand currently, we face two major failings in confronting this crisis. First, we lack the knowledge to overcome the existential threats before us. Second, the forces calling for change have adopted inadequate strategies, organisations, and leadership compared to the well-oiled machinery of the status quo. What we need is to jointly develop the missing knowledge and use it to take appropriate action, beginning with the creation of a new discipline, Global Science, to make sense of it all.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: An Unprecedented Area
• Immense Challenges Ahead
• Intuitive and Analytical Minds
• The Three Key Questions
• Science Takes Revenge
• Model Transfer Problems
• Origins of Great Economic Ideas
• The Examples Abound
• Current Challenges and Tools of the Past
• End of History or Prehistory of a New Era?
• The Continuity Scenario
• Humans and Institutions
• The Core Thesis
• Partially Oriented Transmutations
• Continuity or Revolution by ‘Global Science’
• Part II: Global Science Concepts and Principles
• The Doctrine
• Producing a Theory of Societal Evolutions
• The Continuity Process
• The Global Science Way
• A Word About the Goals
• About the Methodological Issue
• Country Characteristics and Decision Typology
• On the Structuring of Nation and Nation-World Systems
• Global Scheme of the Nation-World System
• Democratic and Motivational Deficiencies
• Science, Ethics and Global Science
• Mission and Strategy
• Diagnosis
• Conceptualisation of the Scheme
• Structuring
• The Method Again
• Decision-Making
• The Principles of Global Science (GS)
• Educational Multiplier Principle
• Principle of Life Design
• Messages and Values
• Institutional Alignment Principle
• The Principle of Protected Hyper-Transparency
• Hyper-Accountability Principle
• Intelligence Mobilisation Principle
• The Leaders-Managers Principle
• At Country Level
• Consistency Between Method and Objectives of Nations
• Prioritisation Principle
• Part III: The Practice of Global Science
• Global Science Manifesto
• The Need to Accelerate Scientific Innovations
• Mobilising Citizen’s Intelligence
• Expectation Management
• Complementary Details
• Structuring and Probability of Success
• Communication is the Keystone of the Project
• About Religions
• Contribution of Other Sciences
• Lessons from Experiences
• Simulations and Trends
• Cycles of Civilizations
• Major Theories
• The Economics of Global Science
• The ‘Unite or Die Principle’: A Choice Between a Galactic Civilisation or Annihilation
• Summary
• Conclusion
• Bibliography