About

GlobalEurope is an interdisciplinary online journal that seeks to re-anchor Europe in a globalized world. As Europe’s role on the global stage is constantly being redefined, it is more important than ever to understand Europe’s wider political, social, cultural, and environmental context. Our premise is one of mutual influences between Europe and the world, and the journal’s content aims to uncover and celebrate the dynamism and complexity of these relationships both historically and in the present. Moreover, GlobalEurope recognizes that Europe has many centers, with diverse perspectives, and that long-established conceptions of peripheries and marginalized populations need re-examining. While in strong support of the European Union, the journal is also attentive to the relations among different “Europes,” valuing an all-encompassing view of the continent beyond the notion that Europe and the Union are one and the same and highlighting those lesser-heard voices within Europe. In this sense, we approach the “global” in global Europe as it relates not only to the non-European world but also to Europe in its totality. We publish research articles, interviews, book reviews, visual art, pedagogical material, and literature in translation. We especially encourage comparative studies and contributions from outside or from the margins of Europe, whether geographical or social. We are also eager to foster a dialog across stakeholders, bridging academia with practitioners, NGOs, and other actors who too “make” Europe and participate in finding solutions to the issues it faces.

Extending an understanding of Europe as being part of a system of world regions, all contributing to the history and the future of Europe and Europeans, GlobalEurope is concerned with questions of security, democracy, climate, minorities, energy, mobilities, environmental degradation, resource politics, peace and absence of peace, economic imbalances, justice, human rights, gender, and more. We are committed to humanistic values and convinced that the lessons of history, recent and less recent, can lead to the construction of a global future in which Europe maintains a place of choice as an actor, a mediator, and an indispensable node in a network with multiple centers.