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