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.

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