Jonathan S Blake and Nils Gilman, Children of a Modest Star. Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises. Stanford, Cal: Stanford University Press 2024. This book sets the bar high in its ambition to radically rethink the present world order based on sovereign national...
The discourse around globalization sped up in the 1990s. It was a strong expression of the remaining impact of the nineteenth-century narrative on how Europe civilized and modernized the world. Europe was capitalism and democracy as ever-expanding forces for the...
Once upon a time, this was the first and only individual professorial homepage on the website of the European University Institute. The Institute’s first webmaster Sieglinde Schreiner asked Bo Stråth to create it as a test case, and they began the experiment...
Forthcoming January 2024 Hardback deliverable from 6 December (preorder 15 November 2023) Description For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space...
An experiended need for new world history, an alternative to the globalization narrative, was behind the initiation of this project in 2008. An alternative with a focus on how we conceptualize cohabitation on Earth, realizing that humans are not the only inhabitants, as opposed to the story about the transportation of commodities on a world market without borders where human labour, too, became commodities. This experienced need for a new conceptualization in 2008 has since then gained profile and precision in the argument for a planetary perspective on cohabitation on Earth.
2009-2013 Between Restoration and Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: an Alternative View on the European Century 1815-1914 (EReRe) Conceptual History and Global Translations: The Euro-Asian and African Semantics of the Social...
Bo Stråth was born in 1943 in Jönköping, Sweden. Under this tag his journey since then is outlined
Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s Abstract The book explores the two opposite planetary perspectives on a new economic-political world order that the Brandt Commission and the multinational corporations developed in the...
Abstract It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner...
Edward Elgar July 2016. Co-authored with Lars Magnusson Abstract The book examines the three historical master tales of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, and questions their validity and relevance in today’s moment of global disorientation which...
