This research group has a multidisciplinary approach and consists of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers as well as permanent staff from history, political science, geography, religious studies, and sociology of society and of organisations.
The group meets for occasional seminars, reading groups and various research initiatives. The group collaborates with Bergen Resource Centre for International Development. Main topics addressed:
- Global systems of capitalism, tax havens and trade
- Religion, cultural diversity and contentious movements
- Knowledge, democracy and international governance
- International organisations and outcastes
- Social and political theory
- Imperialism and colonialism