Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg is Assistant Professor at Potsdam University, Germany.Stefan Bernhard is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany.

• 1. How to Chart Transnational Fields – Introduction to a Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge; Part 1: Methodological Foundations; 2. How Many Fields can Stand on the Point of a Pin? Methodological Notes on Reflexivity, the Sociological Craft and Field Analysis; 3. Adjusting a Bourdieusian Approach to the Study of Transnational Fields. Transversal Practices and State (Trans)formations Related to Intelligence and Surveillance; 4. National, International, Transnational, and Global Fields. Theoretical Clarifications and Methodological Implications; 5. The Post-National Analysis of Fields; 6. European Elites as (a) Field(s). Reflections on the Uses of Prosopography and Geometric Data Analysis Based on Three Joint Surveys of Transnational Objects; Part 2: Investigating Political Fields; 7. Global Change. A Field Theory Perspective on The End of Empire; 8. The Double Function of Rankings. Consecration and Dispositif in Transnational Academic Fields; 9. A Weak Field of Social Policy? A Transnational Perspective on the EEC’s Social Policy-Making (from the 1940s to the 1970s); 10. The Rise of a European Field of Evidence-Based Education; 11. The Euro Crisis Dispositf. Heterogeneous Positioning Strategies in Polycentric Fields; 12. Tracing ‘The Transnational’ in the Nationalization of School Policy. The Transformation of Standards-Based Reform in the US.