With editors and contributors of outstanding academic repututation this exciting new book presents an unconventional and radical perspective, revealing that states do still matter.

Introduction PART 1 Overview 1 States? Sovereignty? The dilemmas of capitalists in an age of transition 2 Globalization and sovereignty 3 Globalization, state sovereignty, and the "endless" accumulation of capital Part 2 Historical perspectives 4 Two worlds of trade, two worlds of empire: European state-making and industrialization in a Chinese mirror 5 The economics of the Latin American state: ideology, policy, and performancec.1820-1945 6 The modern colonial state and global economic integration, 1815-1945 PART 3 Technologies of globalization 7 Sovereignty, territoriality, and the globalization of finance 8 Embedding the global in the national: implications for the role of the state PART 4 Cases 9 Convergent pressures, divergent responses: France, Great Britain, and Germany between globalization and Europeanization 10 From comprador state to auctioneer state: property change, realignment, and peripheralization in post-state-socialist Central and Eastern Europe 11 Globalization, sovereignty and policy choice: lessons from the Mexican peso crisis 12 States, sovereignty and the response of Southeast Asia's "miracle" economies to globalization 13 Reinterpreting the Asianization of the world and the role of the state in the rise of China 214 Hemmed in? The state in Africa and global liberalization