ROBERT ALBRITTON is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. His recent publications include A Japanese Approach to States of Capitalist Development, Dialects and Deconstruction in Political Economy and, The Unique Ontology of Capital in Marx's Theories Today. - MAKOTO ITOH is Professor of Economics at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. His books include The Basic Theory of Capitalism, The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism, Political Economy for Socialism and numerous works in Japanese. - RICHARD WESTRA is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. His most recent publication is A Japanese Contribution to the Critique of Rational Choice Marxism in Social Theory and Practice. - ALAN ZUEGE is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto. He is a contributing editor of the Socialist Register and has recently published articles in Monthly Review and Socialist Register 2000.

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction International Relations and Capitalist Discipline; K.van der Pijl The Fortunes of Capitalism: A Phase of Ex-Capitalist Transition; J.Bell & T.T.Sekine Capitalist Development in World Historical Perspective; G.Arright & J.W.Moore Class Struggle and the Global Overaccumulation of Capital; S.Clarke The State, Globalization, and Phases of Capitalist Development; D.M.Kotz Spiral Reversal of Capitalist Development: What Does it Imply for the Twenty-First Century?; M.Itoh Capitalism in the Future Perfect Tense; R.Albritton Periodizing Capitalism: Technology, Institutions, and Relations of Production; G.Duménil & D.Lévy Space, Regulation, and the Capitalist Economy: S.Resnick Has the Empire Struck Back?; A.Freeman Imperialist Contradictions at the Threshold of the Third Millennium: A New Phase?; G.Carchedi Periodizing Capitalism and Analysing Imperialism: Classical Marxism and Capitalist Evolution; A.Callinicos Growth and Change in the World Economy Since 1950; J.J.Webber & D.L.Rigby Globalize, Globa-lize, Global Lies: Myth of the World Economy in the 1990s; J.Weeks What Follows Fordism? On the Periodization of Capitalism and its Regulation; B.Jessop Phases of Capitalism and Post-Capitalist Social Change; R.Westra Bibliography Index