BEN RICHARDSON is Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Short-listed for the BISA International Political Economy Group Book Prize 2010

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Conceptualising Power in the World Economy: Reviving Regimes in IPE Theory From a Colonial to a National Regime, 1500-1945 Imminent Crisis and the Embryonic Global Regime, 1945-1994 Restructuring in the EU-ACP: Out of the Strong There Came Forth Sweetness US Under Stress: Free Trade and Fracture in the National Regime? Antinomies in Asia: Political Conflicts in Protected Markets The End Game of the Global Regime: A False Promise of Free Markets Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index