MARIEKE DE GOEDE is Lecturer in Political History and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her most recent book Virtue, Fortune and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance (2005), explores the cultural history of modern financial markets from a poststructural perspective. She is currently working on a book about the war on terrorist finance.

• Introduction: International Political Economy and the Promises of Poststrucutralism; M.de Goede SECTION I: POSTSTRUCTURAL INTERVENTIONS Survival/Representation; M.Zalewski Adam Smith: Desire, History, and Value; M.J.Shapiro Securing the Global (Bio)Political Economy: Empire , Poststructuralism and Political Economy; M.Coward Performativity, Popular Finance and Security in the Global Poltical Economy; R.Aitken Libidinal International Political Economy; E.Gammon & R.Palan SECTION II: DISCOURSE, MATERIALITY AND ECONOMY Getting Real: The Necessity of Critical Poststructuralism in Global Political Economy; V.Spike Peterson International Political Economy: Beyond the Poststructuralist/Historical Materialist Dichotomy?; J.M.Ryner Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Poststructuralism and the Italian School; B.Jessop & N-L.Sum The Political Economy of (Im)Possibility; G.Daly SECTION III: POLITICS OF DISSENT Neoliberalism: Policy, Ideology, Governmentality; W.Larner Everyday Life in the Global Political Economy; M.Davies Rethinking Power from the Point of View of Resistance: The Politics of Gender; B.Maiguashca 'There is No Great Refusal': The Ambivalent Politics of Resistance; L.Amoore