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Since the Great Recession of 2008/2009, protectionism, nationalism and the return of geopolitics have slowed down the process of increasing international interconnectedness of economic activities through the mobility of goods, services, capital, labour and technological knowledge. Deglobalisation and slowbalisation have replaced the previous phase of hyper-globalisation. Ten years after the last edition of ‘Global Shift’ (Dicken 2015), the seminar aims at understanding and assessing transformation processes in the global economy from a spatial perspective.