Leonid Grinin's current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, globalization studies, economic cycles, the long-term trends in the cultural evolution and evolution of technologies, technological forecasting, periodization of history, political anthropology and long-term development of the political systems, world-systems studies, revolutions, historical demography.
He thinks that the technologies will develop in the direction of self-regulating systems which will penetrate many spheres starting from medicine to food production.
With respect to possible dramatic changes of the human organism he argues that they may rise unprecedented ethical issues and seriously damage many vital aspects of our life including family relations, gender, and morals.
[8] In the world political science the subject of change, ‘diffusion’, or ‘disappearing’ of national sovereignty is widely debated.
[12] As is noted by Jack Goldstone, the "new view, carefully presented and rigorously modeled by Grinin and Korotayev, provides a richer and more nuanced version of the “Great Divergence,” bridging many of the differences between the traditional and California viewpoints.