The Axis and Global Fascism. Workshop for The Oxford Handbook of the Axis Powers
This is the second workshop preparing The Oxford Handbook of the Axis Powers (eds. António Costa Pinto, Constantin Iordachi and Daniel Hedinger). The first, held in Vienna in April 2026, examined the dictatorships that took shape under Axis rule. This one puts the three main powers themselves at the centre and asks what follows from treating the Axis as a connected object of study rather than as three parallel stories.
The Axis and Global Fascism. Workshop for The Oxford Handbook of the Axis Powers
At the height of their power in mid-1942, the Axis of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo ruled over much of Europe, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific. The alliance was far more than a military coalition. It grew out of intensifying interaction between the three countries from the 1930s onwards and stood for an ideologically grounded alternative to both the liberal-capitalist and the communist model. Long dismissed as an alliance in name only, it is now being reassessed, not least because fascism is no longer read as a European product but as a global phenomenon of the interwar years.
Public Roundtable: The Axis and Global Fascism
Wednesday, 28 October 2026, 5.15–6.45 pm, Room 5.55, ReCentGlobe, Leipzig University, and online with António Costa Pinto (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa), Constantin Iordachi (Central European University) and Daniel Hedinger (Leipzig University). Moderation: Nadin Heé (Leipzig University).
Participants
Goffredo Adinolfi, ISCTE, Lisbon — Discussant
Ángel Alcalde, University of Melbourne — Franco’s Spain and the Axis
Nicola Bassoni, University of Genoa — Geopolitics and the Axis seen from Europe
António Costa Pinto, ICS, Universidade de Lisboa — Roundtable
Christian Goeschel, University of Manchester — Performing the Axis: Diplomacy, Ritual, and the Performance of a New International Order
Martin Hamre, University of Oslo — Fascist Internationalism
Nadin Heé, Leipzig University — Roundtable, moderation
Daniel Hedinger, Leipzig University — Roundtable
Constantin Iordachi, Central European University, Vienna — Roundtable
Ken Ishida, Chiba University — The Italian-Japanese Relationship
Janis Mimura, Stony Brook University — Axis Geopolitics from a Eurasian Perspective
Sarah Panzer, Missouri State University — Cultural Diplomacy between Germany and Japan
Naoko Shimazu, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo — Axis Diplomacy and the Greater East Asia Conference of 1943
Daisuke Tano, Konan University, Kobe — Social Policy under the Axis: With a Focus on German-Japanese Relations
The Axis and Global Fascism. Workshop for The Oxford Handbook of the Axis Powers, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 23.10.2026, https://www.connections.clio-online.net/event/id/event-165315.