The Close of the ‘Global Age’ Paradigm [The Paradigm Shift Ep2 Syllabus] Tuesday, June 30, 2020 By Stillness in the Storm 1 Comment (Rachel Wyman) Lecture 2 will examine the end of the ‘Global Age’, also commonly referred to as the ‘globalist’ paradigm, using Sir Ian Kershaw’s The Global Age: Europe 1950 – 2017 (2019) as the main text.