Stuck between the West and the Global:Review of Globalizing Europe. A History, edited by David Motadel (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

In this incisive Long Read, Ferenc Laczó critically engages with Globalizing Europe, edited by David Motadel (CUP, 2025). Laczó highlights the volume’s intellectual ambition and scholarly range, while probing its limitations— particularly a lack of a sustained effort to engage with the rich and growing global historical scholarship that meaningfully incorporates areas outside of the northwestern “core.”