`This book skillfully navigates the shoals of place and space to explain the intricacies of globalization. For those interested in the changing geography of global capitalism, Peck and Yeung is a "must read"' - James H Mittelman, American University

Making Global Connections - Henry Wai-chung Yeung and Jamie Peck A Geographer's PerspectivePART ONE: GROUNDING GLOBAL FLOWS`Placing' Firms - Peter Dicken Grounding the Debate on the `Global' CorporationGlobalization, Transnationalism and the Asia-Pacific - Neil M Coe, Philip F Kelly and Kris OldsThe Marginalization of Everywhere? Emerging Geographies of Emerging Markets - Roger LeeThe Globalization of Environmental Management - Erica Schoenberger International Investment in the Water, Waste-Water and Solid Waste IndustriesPART TWO: PLACING GLOBAL KNOWLEDGEThe Spatial Life of Things - Meric S Gertler The Real World Practice within the Global FirmSpaces of Corporate Learning - Ash AminThe Might of `Might' - Nigel Thrift How Social Power Is Being RefiguredBeyond the Cluster - Local Milieux and Global Connections - Anders MalmbergPART THREE: REFIGURING GLOBAL RULESMaking Global Rules - Adam Tickell and Jamie Peck Globalization or Neoliberalization?Globalization: Faustian Bargain, Development Saviour or More of the Same? The Case of the Developing World and the Emerging International Trade Regime - Amy Glasmeier and Michael Conroy`Glocalization' as a State Spatial Strategy - Neil Brenner Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Politics of Uneven Development in Western EuropeGlobal Production Systems and European Integration - Ray Hudson De-Regionalizing, Re-Regionalizing and Re-Scaling Production Systems in Europe