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Der Band erschließt mit seinem grenzüberschreitenden Zuschnitt und der Positionierung „jenseits von Markt und Staat“ für die Globalgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts zahlreiche neue Erkenntnismöglichkeiten. Raum und Territorialisierung, globale Integration und Staatlichkeit, Recht und internationale Organisationen: diese Dimensionen der Global Commons erweitern unsere Perspektiven auf den Kalten Krieg, die Dekolonisierung und den Nord-Süd-Konflikt.

The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration. Accordingly, scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly argued against equating the history of globalization processes and transcultural entanglements with the master narrative of the gradual homogenization of the world. Examining the shifting patterns of global connections has, therefore, become the main challenge for all those who seek to understand the past, the present and the future of modern societies. And this challenge includes finding a place for the nation state. The studies presented here argue that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements opens the door for its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes and plays various and at times even contradictory roles at the same time.