Alexander N. Chumakov is Professor; Chair, Philosophy Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation; Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy; First Vice-President, Russian Philosophical Society; specializations in global studies, democratization, social philosophy, ecology; Editor-in-Chief, Age of Globalization, Vestnik RFO; author, 16 books.William C. Gay is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has published five books with Russian philosophers and has authored many articles and book chapters on issues of war, peace, and justice.