Potentials and Challenges of Global Studies for the 21st Century

Eric Vanhaute, member of the GCGS steering committee and head of the Research Group Communities, Comparisons, Connections, has contributed to the Special Issue on Potentials and Challenges of Global Studies for the 21st Century of the academic E-journal Global Europe – Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective, published by the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. 

Table of contents:

The Historicity of Europe’s Global Entanglements with a Focus on Interdisciplinary Research by Madeleine Herren (Institute for European Global Studies, Basel University)

Global Studies: A Historical Approach by Patrick Manning (World History Centre, University of Pittsburgh)

Communicating Global Perspectives by Philip C. McCarty (Dept. of Global and International Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara)

What Is Global Studies All About? by Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University)

Historicizing Global Studies. About Old and New Frontiers of World-Making by Eric Vanhaute (Ghent Centre for Global Studies, Ghent University)

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