It is a truth well acknowledged among historians that decolonization was the defining event of the twentieth century. While scholars have long been writing about decolonization for many decades, most do so in national contexts. Yet, despite the far- reaching consequences of the paradigmatic shift from a world of empires to a world of nation-states, there remained a dearth of global accounts of decolonization. Scholars are increasingly seeking to rectify this oversight and calling for historical narratives that see the history of decolonization in connected rather than ways. This panel responds to such scholarly provocations by bringing together advanced graduate students and early career scholars working on the circulations of anti-colonial ideas in the colonial and imperial world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The papers show that decolonization is both a structural and normative phenomenon. It led to the proliferation of new sovereign states but also posed a normative challenge to European narratives of civilizational supremacy and racial hierarchy. This panel brings together scholars in a diverse geographic fields, from South Asia to the Middle East, West Africa to Europe, working on the common thematic of empire and decolonization. Panelists bring methodologies from a variety of approaches to historical writing including cultural, intellectual, political and economic histories. Collectively, they demonstrate how the movements against imperialism were necessarily and intimately connected to each other. At the same time, by taking a long temporal view, this panel will emphasize the diversity and heterogeneity within anti-colonialism and show the complex, contradictory and at times fragmented nature of these linkages. In doing so, they break through the barriers of methodological nationalism instead taking seriously the transnational connections and global imaginations that brought to life, what is called, somewhat paradoxically, the age of nationalism.