Аннотация:Global Studies can be defined as an interdisciplinary area of scientific studiesfocusing on the essence, the cause and tendencies of globalization, and the analysisof its positive and negative impacts.As an independent scholarly field and a sphere of public policy, Global Studiesstarted to take shape in the late 1960s when various sciences faced the needto solve systemic problems on a global scale. These problems first manifestedthemselves in the “society-nature system” [relationship between society andnature], but their list soon grew longer, and they were summarized as “contemporaryglobal problems” and became the original focus of the academic community.The term “Global Studies” (or “globalistics”), albeit one could comeacross it in specialist literature back then, still had quite a way to go beforecoming into common use. The term made a comeback only in the second halfof the 1990s after the collapse of the socialist system when scholars seriouslyturned to studying the processes of globalization.By that time, they had collated considerable theoretical and factual evidencein the sphere of global processes and phenomena, and terms, such as“globalization,” “Global Studies,” “global problems,” “global world,” and “antiglobalism,”became widely used not only in academic literature but also in themass media, political argot and in everyday language. It all added up to prerequisitesand conditions for the shaping of a novel discipline—Global Studies(or globalistics), which, however, is still ambiguous.