Kollektivnai︠a︡ monografii︠a︡ osveshchaet itogi realizat︠s︡ii odnoimennogo proekta, sostai︠a︡vshegosi︠a︡ na baze Instituta vseobshcheĭ istorii RAN. Daetsi︠a︡ obooshchenie chetyrem nauchnym diskussii︠a︡m, posvi︠a︡shchennym vyzovam globalizat︠s︡ii, modernizat︠s︡ii, migrat︠s︡ii i varvarstva. Ispolʹzui︠a︡ transnat︠s︡ionalʹnui︠u︡ perspektivu i opirai︠a︡sʹ na teoreticheskie novat︠s︡ii v izuchenii i rekonstrukt︠s︡ii t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡iĭ, avtory monografii vskryvai︠u︡t mekhanizmy porozhdenii︠a︡ razlichnykh t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ionnykh vyzovov i rezulʹtaty ikh protivorechivogo vozdeĭstvii︠a︡ na otdelʹnye kokalʹnye t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ii i vsemirno-istoricheskiĭ prot︠s︡ess v t︠s︡elom. Rassmotrenie vyzovov globalizat︠s︡ii, modernizat︠s︡ii, migrat︠s︡ii i varvarstva v mnognurovnevoĭ perspektive, pozvoli︠a︡i︠u︡shcheĭ naĭti kontury sopri︠a︡zhenii︠a︡ makro- i mikroistoricheskogo analiza, v raznykh geograficheskikh i temporalʹnykh sredakh, odnovremenno v sinkhronnom i diakhronnom srezakh pozvoli︠a︡et uglubitʹ ponimanie spet︠s︡ifiki otdelʹnykh t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡iĭ, sposobov ikh vzaimodeĭstvii︠a︡, a takzhe nyneshneĭ ėpokhi globalizat︠s︡ii, kotorai︠a︡ v svoi︠u︡ ocheredʹ i︠a︡vli︠a︡etsi︠a︡ "zerkalom zadnego videnii︠a︡" dli︠a︡ velikikh t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡iĭ proshlogo.

The collective monograph covers the outcome of the implementation of the project of the same name, held on the basis of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A summary of four scientific discussions devoted to the challenges of globalization, modernization, migration, and barbarism is presented. Using the transnational perspective and relying on theoretical innovations in the study and reconstruction of civilizations, the authors of the monograph reveal the mechanisms for generating various civilization challenges and the results of their contradictory effect on individual local civilizations and the world-historical process as a whole. Consideration of the challenges of globalization, modernization, migration and barbarism in a multilevel perspective, which allows finding the contours of linking macro- and micro-historical analysis in different geographic and temporal environments simultaneously in synchronic and diachronic sections allows to deepen the understanding of the specificity o individual civilizations, ways of their interaction as well as the current era of globalization, which in turn is a "rear-view mirror" for the great civilizations of the past.