Our research group is largely concerned with the topics of transnational and non-European as well as global history. The global historical perspective denotes a particular view of historical developments with which we attempt to analyse multi-layered aspects of global connections or transnational processes, and to explore their interactions with local processes. It is thus about the trade-off between economics, politics, society, culture and religion. The theoretical concern of global history is to overcome national-historical and eurocentric ways of thinking. Through procedures such as reflecting on categories, international contextualisation or comparisons, global history strives to make more comprehensive statements or identify tendencies. In this way, it ultimately approaches a historical social science.