The project Local Dynamics of Globalization in the Pre-Modern Levant (LDG) is a multi disciplinary attempt at understanding how the history and lasting character of the Levant is formed in the interplay between globalising and localising forces and processes that move at different paces and follow individual internal grammar. Their interplay and interaction not only made up the dynamics of the Levant, they also contributed to providing lasting characteristics of the region. LDG aimed to identify relevant tools for describing and analysing these processes of interaction and change (or stability). We did that by focusing upon two different registers: 1) trans-local forces, based on complex social formations, headed by political and economic elites, etc. and 2) localising forces, based on basic or simple social formations, headed by traditional local elites, and so forth. As part of our strategy, we followed one site that has been occupied throughout our periods: Tall Hisban in Jordan. Its historical record served as a heuristic comparison for our other case studies. These case studies were organised in three “panels” of research to the pre-modern Levant. Each study addressed specific topics at specific places in time and history – all revolving around the interaction between local and trans-local processes and dynamics and trans-local ones.