Conclusion: Global History in the Face of Globalization and the Return of Nationalisms

Abstract

The decomposition of this world beginning in the 1970s, and even more so after 1989, opened the way for our current globalization, of which global history is a reflection. The success of capitalism, so celebrated after 1989, led to a paradoxical result: the West won the Cold War but lost peace, as the speculative and political crises of recent years bear witness. The strength and limits of global history reflect those of the post-1989 world, and like it invite one to think globally and give a voice to non-European worlds. It is in starting out from the current world and its history that we can imagine different solutions to global inequalities and the return of nationalisms.