Comparativ is a journal for global history and comparative social research that focuses on themes of innovative world history and analyzes historical as well as current globalization processes. Differences and similarities, as well as interaction, cooperation, and transfer processes, are discussed in their temporal change and in terms of their significance and function for the spatialization and de-spatialization of social, cultural, political, economic, and legal orders. Comparativ publishes contributions in German, English, and French. The journal serves as the communication forum for the European Network in Universal and Global History and therefore particularly intensively discusses the European perspective on globalization and European developments in global contexts.