Introduction 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 4: Two Worlds of Trade, Two Worlds of Empire: European State-Making and Industrialization in the Chinese Mirror 5: The Economics of the Latin American State: Ideology, Policy and Performance c. 1820-1945 6: The Modern Colonial State and Global Economic Integration 1815-1945 7: Sovereignty, Territoriality and the Globalization of Finance 8: Embedding the Global in the National: Implications for the Role of the State 9: Convergent Pressures, Divergent Responses: France, Great Britain and Germany between Globalization and Europeanization 10: From Comparador 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 Asias Miracle Economies to Globalization 13: Reinterpreting the Asianization of the World and the Role of the State in the Rise of China 14: Hemmed in? The State in Africa and Global Liberalization Index