List of Acronyms and Abbreviations - List of Tables and Figures - List of Contributors - Introduction; G.R.D.Underhill - PART 1: SECTORS, REGIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION - Private Markets and Public Responsibility in a Global System: Conflict and Co-operation in Transnational Banking and Securities Regulation; G.R.D.Underhill - Market Regulation and Particularistic Interests: the Dynamics of Insider Trading Regulation in the US and Europe; J.McCahery - Financial Deregulation and the Transformation of International Risks Insurance; V.Haufler - The Making of the European Financial Area: Global Market Integration and the EU Single Market for Financial Services; G.R.D.Underhill - The Politics of the EU Single Market for Investment Services: Negotiating the Investment Services and Capital Adequacy Directives; P.Brown - Domestic Politics, Economic Transitions, and Central Europe's Integration into Global Financial Markets; G.Rodkey - NAFTA, North American Financial Integration, and Regulatory Co-operation in Banking and Securities; T.Porter - PART 2: NATIONAL CASES - The Dynamics of Financial Market Reform in Japan 1975-1995; J.Holt-Dwyer - Globalisation, the State, and Financial Reform in the East Asian NICs: the Cases of Korea and Taiwan; M.Bernard - Globalisation, the European Union, and German Financial Reform: the Political Economy of Finanzplatz Deutschland; J.Story - The French State, Dirigisme, and the Changing Global Financial Environment; W.D.Coleman - Financial Reform, the United States and the New World Order in International Finance; H.Garten - Conclusion: Global Markets, Macroeconomic Instability, and Exchange Rate Crises: the Political Economy of the New World Order in International Finance; G .R.D.Underhill - Index