Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction DAVID A. SMITH, DOROTHY J. SOLINGER, AND STEVEN C. TOPIK -- States? Sovereignty? The dilemmas of capitalists in an age of transition IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN -- Globalization and sovereignty STEPHEN D. KRASNER -- Globalization, state sovereignty, and the ~endless~ accumulation of capital GIOVANNI ARRIGHI -- Two worlds of trade, two worlds of empire: European state-making and industrialization in a Chinese mirror KENNETH POMERANZ -- The economics of the Latin American state: ideology, policy, and performance c. 1820 1945 COLIN M. LEWIS -- The modern colonial state and global economic integration, 1815 1945 WILLIAM G. CLARENCE-SMITH -- Sovereignty, territoriality, and the globalization of finance ERIC HELLEINER -- Embedding the global in the national: implications for the role of the state SASKIA SASSEN -- Convergent pressures, divergent responses: France, Great Britain, and Germany between globalization and Europeanization VIVIEN A. SCHMIDT -- From comprador state to auctioneer state: property change, realignment, and peripheralization in post-state-socialist Central and Eastern Europe JZSEF BRCZ -- Globalization, sovereignty and policy choice: lessons from the Mexican peso crisis MANUEL PASTOR, JR -- States, sovereignty and the response of Southeast Asia's ~miracle~ economies to globalization RICHARD STUBBS -- Reinterpreting the Asianization of the world and the role of the state in the rise of China EDWARD FRIEDMAN -- Hemmed in? The state in Africa and global liberalization JULIUS E. NYANG'ORO -- Index.