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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Contested „Globalization.“ Perceptions of Interconnectedness and Western Politics since the 1970s
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together several ongoing research projects to explore the ways in which the idea of an increasingly interconnected world has shaped the political history of the recent past. Diagnoses of a shrinking world have influenced political commentary since the late 19th century. In the 1970s, however, they gained a new quality. Alarmed by currency turmoil and oil shocks, politicians began to consider growing worldwide “interdependence” as the major challenge of the future. At the beginning of the 1990s, observers declared what they now called “globalization” the sign of a new era after the end of the Cold War. They identified an increasing number of developments – ranging from financial markets and new communication technologies to terrorist networks – as either the causes or the products of this overarching process. In both historical moments, the idea of a globe that was rapidly growing together served as a consequential political argument. Western governments referred to “interdependence” and “globalization,” respectively, to make far-reaching readjustments in both their domestic and foreign policies. In the eyes of civil movements, by contrast, increasing worldwide interlinkage highlighted the necessity of international human rights protection or of the struggle against predatory capitalism. This made perceptions of interconnectedness a highly contested terrain. While hardly anybody doubted the supposed reality of “interdependence” or “globalization” as such, controversy raged around the nature of these processes and the political conclusions that should be drawn from them. The panel examines the worldviews and self-understandings that manifested themselves in the ideas of global interconnectedness as well as the political projects that these ideas motivated. At the same time, the panel analyzes the historical connections between the moments of the 1970s, the 1990s, and today’s globalization discourse.
Der Beitrag Contested „Globalization.“ Perceptions of Interconnectedness and Western Politics since the 1970s erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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