The threatened order of the ‘globalized’ world. Conceptions of globalization, political awakening and social debate in the USA, Great Britain, and the Federal Republic of Germany (1990s and 2000s) (F09*)

The project addresses the emergence of the globalization discourse during the 1990s and early 2000s and takes a synchronous perspective to explore the question of how the discourse and its inherent notions of threatened orders shaped contemporary political perceptions and action in the USA, Great Britain, and Germany. The project focuses on the expansion of free trade promoted by the Clinton government and the World Trade Organization and opposed by the 'anti-globalization movement', as well as the reforms of social and labour market policies in both Great Britain and Germany.

DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Subproject of SFB 923:  Threatened Orders

Applicant Institution Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Project Head Professor Dr. Jan Eckel