ABSTRACT

Globalization and the role of the state are issues at the forefront of contemporary debates. With editors and contributors of outstanding academic repututation this exciting new book presents an unconventional and radical perspective. Revealing that states do still matter despite the vigour of international capital flows and the omnipresence of the

chapter 1|14 pages

States? Sovereignty?

The dilemmas of capitalists in an age of transition

chapter 2|19 pages

Globalization and sovereignty

chapter 4|25 pages

Two worlds of trade, two worlds of empire

European state-making and industrialization in a Chinese mirror

chapter 8|14 pages

Embedding the global in the national

Implications for the role of the state

chapter 9|21 pages

Convergent pressures, divergent responses

France, Great Britain, and Germany between globalization and Europeanization

chapter 10|17 pages

From comprador state to auctioneer state

Property change, realignment, and peripheralization in post-state-socialist central and eastern Europe

chapter 11|19 pages

Globalization, sovereignty and policy choice

Lessons from the Mexican peso crisis

chapter 14|14 pages

Hemmed in?

The state in Africa and global liberalization