Nowadays, crises are rarely confined within national borders. When an economic, health, migration or humanitarian crisis occurs, State and non-State actors, public and private stakeholders are involved on a global scale. The distinctive feature of this emerging irregular scenario is the tendency towards aggregation and interconnection and the overcoming of conventional territorial approaches. Against this background, the project aims to investigate how the knowledge and practices developed by political institutions, specialised agencies and non-governmental organisations, economic actors and scientific communities are changing the representation of the crisis, its causes and consequences, its severity and those responsible for it. Overall, the projet enquires how historical memory, economic science and international law have shaped the idea of the 'transnational crisis' that we currently know.