Korotayev - Select Publications

Select Publications

Korotayev has written over 27 books and 210 articles dealing with his research interests . These include

• Ancient Yemen (Oxford University Press, 1995),
• World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-cultural Perspective (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), and
• Introduction to Social Macrodynamics (KomKniga/URSS, 2006, with Artemy Malkov and Daria Khaltourina).

Among his more important journal articles are

• "Origins of Islam". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53/3–4 (1999): 243–276 (with Vladimir Klimenko and Dmitry Proussakov),
• "Regions Based on Social Structure: A Reconsideration". Current Anthropology 41/5 (October, 2000): 668–690 (with Alexander Kazankov),
• Evolutionary Agent-Based Model of Pre-State Warfare Patterns: Cross-Cultural Tests. World Cultures 15/1 (2004): 28–36 (with Mikhail Burtsev).
• A Compact Macromodel of World System Evolution in the Journal of World Systems Research 11/1 (2005): 79-93.
• Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered. Journal of American Folklore 119 (2006): 472–520.
• The World System Urbanization Dynamics: A quantitative analysis in History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies (Ed. by Peter Turchin, Leonid Grinin et al., p. 44–62. Moscow: KomKniga, 2006),
• Social Macroevolution: Growth of the World System Integrity and a System of Phase Transitions. World Futures, Volume 65, Issue 7 October 2009, pages 477–506 (with Leonid Grinin),
• A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis. Structure and Dynamics. 2010. Vol.4. #1. P.3-57 (with Sergey Tsirel),
• Log-Periodic Oscillation Analysis Forecasts the Burst of the "Gold Bubble" in April – June 2011 // Structure and Dynamics 4/3 (2010): 1-11 (with Askar Akayev, Alexey Fomin, and Sergey Tsirel),
• Kondratieff Waves in Global Invention Activity (1900–2008). Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 2011. Vol. 78. P. 1280–1284 (with Julia Zinkina and Justislav Bogevolnov).
• Egyptian Revolution: A Demographic Structural Analysis. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar 13 (2011): 139-165 (with Julia Zinkina),
• A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia. Cliodynamics 2/2 (2011): 1-28 (with Daria Khaltourina and others),
• The origins of dragon-kings and their occurrence in society. Physica A 391/21 (2012): 5215–5229 (with Artemy Malkov and Julia Zinkina).