Richard Stubbs is in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University. Geoffrey R.D. Underhill is Chair of International Governance in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Education at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Section I: Understanding the Changing Global Order ; Introduction: Conceptualizing the Changing Global Order ; 1. The Emergence of IPE ; 2. Problems of Power and Knowledge in a Changing Global World Order ; 3. Globalization: The Long View ; 4. Globalization and Its Critics ; 5. Alternatives to Neoliberalism? Towards a More Heterogeneous Global Political Economy ; 6. Theory and Exclusion: Gender, Masculinity, and International Political Economy ; Section II: Global Issues ; Introduction: Global Issues in Historical Perspective ; 7. The Political Economy of Post-September 11th Security ; 8. Global Finance and Political Order ; 9. Emerging World Financial Order and Different Forms of Capitalisms ; 10. The Group of Seven and Global Macroeconomic Governance ; 11. WTO and the Governance of Globalization: Dismantling the Compromise of Embedded Liberalism ; 12. Big Business, the WTO and Development: Uruguay and Beyond ; 13. Transnational Production and Corporate Strategies ; 14. The Political Economy of the Internet and E-Commerce ; 15. The Agency of Labour in a Changing Global Order ; 16. Postcolonial Readings of Child Labour in a Globalized Economy ; 17. Environment, Economy, and Global Environment Governance ; 18. Gendered Representation of the 'Global': Reading/Writing Globalization ; 19. Crime in the Global Economy ; Section III: Regional Dynamics ; Introduction: Regionalism and Globalization ; 20. Explaining the Regional Phenomenon in an Era of Globalization ; 21. The Transnational Political Economy of Europen Integration: The Future Socio-Economic Governance in the Enlarged Union ; 22. The North American Free Trade Agreement ; 23. Latin America in the Global Political Economy ; 24. Economic Regionalism in East Asia: Consolidation with Centrifugal Tendencies ; 25. Political Economies of Africa(s) at the Start of the 21st Century ; Section IV: Responses to Globalization ; Introduction: Responses to Globalization ; 26. Political Globalization and the Competition State ; 27. Negotiating Globalization: The Foreign Economic Policy of the European Union ; 28. Globalization and the Transformation of the Germany Model ; 29. The Political Economy of the UK Compeitition State: Committed Globalism, Selected Europeanism ; 30. Transition Economies ; 31. The United States and Globalization: Struggles with Hegemony ; 32. Politics and Markets in East Asia: Is the Developmental State Compatible with Globalization ; 33. Japan, East Asian Regionalism and Selective Resistance to Globalization: Regional Divisions of Labour and Financial Cooperation ; 34. China and the Political Economy of Global Engagement