The Future of Global History

Global history has established itself as one of the most productively contested approaches to understanding the past. It challenges inherited boundaries--national, regional, and continental--by foregrounding comparison, tracing connections, and, crucially, identifying moments of disconnection that unsettle teleological interpretations of increasing integration.

Yet global history unfolds within a changing political landscape. The resurgence of nationalism, the prominence of personalized power politics, and the persistence of geopolitical conflict pose pressing challenges to global modes of interpretation. Can global history retain its critical and analytical edge? Or does it risk becoming silenced by the very structures it seeks to transcend?