Alternative approaches to modelling world political processed and orders

The article presents the grounds and principles of modelling with the example of the analysis of publications in the special issue of the journal “Political Science” devoted to the changing world orders (No. 2, 2024). A distinction is made between modelling in life and various scientific studies. The role of political modeling of research questions, subject, method and motivation of research is highlighted.
A distinction is made between phenomena and their concepts, their reification and dereification, as well as the reality, actuality and imaginativeness of modeled phenomena. Particular attention is paid to the miscalculations caused by the uncontrolled acceptance of the myth of the given and the myth of the framework. The processes of purification of saturation and rooting of models, the connection of these processes with simplex-complex transformations and transdisciplinary organon integrators – metretics, morphetics and semiosics – are considered. Alternative possibilities of modelling are discussed (in particular: the construction of dynamic models that take into account the synchronization and dissynchronization of political processes). The problem of forming a theoretical and methodological approach to development is discussed. The authors propose to develop not an abstract theory, but a transdisciplinary research program focused on mastering the extended evolutionary synthesis (evo-devo).

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