This chapter argues that, because of globalization, global studies began to be formalized as a framework for scholarly analysis only during the 1990s. The characteristics of that process of influence constitute the first part of the chapter. After that, the author reviews recent problems of setting priorities among global and area studies for the social sciences and history. Thirdly, expanding the issue to a more general level, he reviews the competing visions of the logic of the study at the global level. Finally, he returns to the specifics of world history and considers how best to organize this profession and link it to other realms of global studies.
