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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|25 pages
Two worlds of trade, two worlds of empire
European state-making and industrialization in a Chinese mirror
chapter 5|21 pages
The economics of the Latin American state: ideology, policy, and performance c. 1820–1945
Ideology, policy and performance
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