Social policy and historicisation of the transnational

Social policy is a topic settled at the periphery of global history concepts, although its long lasting border crossing potential provides a possibility of historiographical reflections on both, the disappearance and reappearance of scientific interest in internationalizing processes. At the beginning, research on social politics is regarded as an expression of competing understandings of transnationalism firstly, as It an interface to foreign policy, secondly, as a comparing method, and thirdly, as a specific form of Cold War politics. Doing so, transnationalism gains its own historicity, which goes back to the 19th century. Closely related to the development of IGOs and NGOs as well, socio-political approaches show the probably innovative dilemma to gain a more transgressive character. Focusing on instable and conflicting issues, sociopolitical transnationality helps to find out, where, in the age of globalization, the invincible borderlines are.