Hot topic - globalisation is the biggest area of study in IPE and IR, and this work is a major contribution to the ongoing debates

Controversial - argues that historical materialism has changed and can contest the assumed inevitability of liberal capitalism in today's world

High profile Editors - Mark Rupert has a strong and increasing reputation in the US market

Hazel Smith is at the University of Warwick which has one of the world's leading centres for the study of globalisation

Series editor Richard Higgott considers this likely to be a 'landmark volume, a necessary reference well into the future'

Big names: the contributors are a stellar Who's Who of the main players in the field: Fred Halliday (LSE); Mick Cox (Aberystywth); Kees van der Pijl (Sussex); Ellen Wood (York University, Canada); as well as other established scholars and some rising stars