In July 2023 the ERC Advanced Grant project GLOBAL ('Global Cleavages: The Shape of Political Conflict across World Regions in Historical Perspective') was launched with the aim of investigating the dimensionality of global politics. Treating the globe as one system, it analyses the cleavages that structure world politics and asks whether conflicts are shaped territorially or along functional dimensions cutting across world regions. The long-term empirical analysis from the 19th century to the present attempts to establish if, and under what conditions, divisions opposing world regions – core-periphery, North-South, or civilizational contrasts – change and are replaced by divisions opposing transnational groups along economic, political and socio-cultural inequalities. The framework is that of cleavage theory as it has been applied to the national and European levels to investigate territorial integration.
Information about the project can be found at: https://global.eui.eu.
As part of its activities, GLOBAL plans two workshops. The first workshop takes place during year 2 of the funding period, and is intended as a scientific conference to advance knowledge through original papers for an academic audience.
Papers are invited on topics of global cleavages and global dimensionality, ideology and the politicization of various inequalities, cross-cutting dimensions in electorates and institutions, international organisations and supranational parliaments, transnational actors and movements, and competing discourses on global contestation among others. Papers may either put forward novel theories and concepts, or offer empirical analyses based on a variety of comparative, statistical, text-based, survey and scaling methods. A long-term historical perspective would constitute a welcome addition to any type of analysis.
The workshop brings together a restricted group of leading scholars working on the dimensionality of global politics to advance a new research agenda. The workshop also serves as a step toward creating an international network of junior and established scholars that can foster exchange and collaboration. The papers of the workshop will be submitted to a journal as a special issue or symposium in a journal.
By invitation only.
Funded/Co-funded by the European Union (ERC, GLOBAL, project number 101097740). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.