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This IPE Classic challenges the claim that globalization is a well-documented phenomena whose effects are easily accounted for. With a new Preface and Foreword, it continues to explore the categories we use to think about globalization, and the effects which globalizing tendencies have on key institutional features of the contemporary world.

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Foreword; Timothy M. Shaw Preface; Randall Germain 1. Introduction: Globalization and its Critics; Randall Germain PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING GLOBALIZATION: PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, CULTURE 2. Philosophical Roots of Globalization and Philosophical Routes to Globalization; John MacLean 3. Globalization in Historical Perspective; Randall Germain 4. Globalization and Cultural Political Economy; Nick Stevenson PART II: EXPLORING GLOBALIZATION: BEYOND STATE AND MARKET 5. Restructuring the Political Arena: Globalization and the Paradoxes of the Competition State; Philip Cerny 6. Recasting Political Authority: Globalization and the State; Ronen Palan 7. What are Global Markets: The Significance of Networks of Trade?; Jonathan Perraton PART III: PROBLEMATIC GLOBALIZATION: KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY 8. Deficit Discourses: The Social Construction of Fiscal Rectitude; Timothy J.Sinclair 9. Technology and Globalization: Assessing Patterns of Interaction; Michael Talalay 10. Beyond ´Techno-globalism´ and ´Techno-nationalism´: Re-articulating the Sites and Stakes of Technological Competitiveness; Ngai-Ling Sum 11. Globalization in Perspective; R.J. Barry Jones

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"Globalization and its Critics contributes to the necessary task of marking out an alternative vision of IPE." - Millennium

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Philip Cerny, Rutgers University, USA Randall Germain, Carleton University, Canada R.J. Barry Jones, Reading University, UK John Maclean, University of Sussex, UK Ronen Palan, City University London, UK Jonathan Perraton, Sheffield University, UK Timothy J. Sinclair, University of Warwick, UK Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham, UK Ngai-Ling Sum, Lancaster University, UK Michael Talalay, independent management consultant, UK

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