What is DeGlobE?

DeGlobE is an interdisciplinary research programme and doctoral college that examines de-globalisation and global decoupling from different perspectives in four thematic areas:

  • Clean Transition and Green Technologies (Professor Andreas Goldthau)
  • Value creation and security apparatuses (Professor Sophia Hoffmann)
  • Financial infrastructure policy (Professor Oliver Kessler)
  • Supply chains: human rights and sustainable development (Professor Michael Riegner)

We explore how the recalibration of market and state manifests itself in economic paradigms and levels of regulation and how this can be linked to de-globalisation processes.

DeGlobE is interested in two central questions:

  1. What characterises the developing, specific "post-globalisation logics" in the respective thematic areas?
  2. What consequences do de-globalisation, disentanglement and global decoupling have for normative goals such as social justice, socio-ecological transformation or respect for human rights, and what mechanisms are replacing former multilateral approaches?

Subject areas

Clean transition and green technologies (headed by Professor Dr Andreas Goldthau, Public Policy)

Value Creation and Security Apparatuses (Head: Professor Dr Sophia Hoffmann, International Politics and Conflict Research)

Financial Infrastructure Policy: (Head: Professor Dr Oliver Kessler, International Relations)

Supply chains, human rights and sustainable development (Head: Assistant professor Dr Michael Rieger, Law