Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- SECTION I THE TRANSNATIONAL CLASS STRUCTURE AND THE STATE -- Globalization Today: At the Borders of Class and State Theory (William K. Tabb) -- Statist Globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf States (Jerry Harris) -- Australia Has a Transnational Capitalist Class? (Georgina Murray) -- El Salvador and the Central American Free Trade Agreement: Consolidation of a Transnational Capitalist Class (Cori Madrid) -- The Migration-Development Model Can Serve Two Masters: The Transnational Capitalist Class and National Development (Rubin Patterson) -- Toward a Theory of Global Proletarian Fractions (Jason Struna) -- SECTION II THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZATION -- Towards a Reformulation of Core/Periphery Relationship: A Critical Reappraisal of the Trimodality of the Capitalist World-Economy in the Early 21st Century (Kwangkun Lee) -- The Political Economy of US Wars of Choice: Are They Really Oil Wars? (Ismael Hossein-zadeh) -- Hilferding's Finance Capital versus Wal-Mart World: Disaggregating the Dollar's Hegemony (Gregory P. Nowell) -- Neoliberal Agenda in Bolivia and its Aftermath (Magda von der Heydt-Coca) -- European Markets as Challenges or Opportunities for Mexican SMEs' Internationalization: A Critical Analysis of Globalization (Lorena Ruiz Garcia) -- Intellectual Property Rights: The West, India, and China (John W. Sutherlin) -- Conflicts of Interest: Plasticity of Peace Tourism and the 21st Century Nation (Veda E. Ward) -- SECTION III NATIONAL IDENTITY AND DEVELOPMENT -- Globalization and Separatism: The Infl uence of Internal and External Interdependence on the Strategies of Separatism (Ryan D. Griffi ths and Ivan Savic) -- Demystifying the Nation Globe Conundrum: A Preliminary Sketch (JoAnn Chirico).

This Part of The Globe Is Not Flat: The Paradox of the Turkish Relationship with Northern Iraq and the Dilemma of Kurdish Politics across Borders (Kumru Toktamis) -- Turkey's Imperial Legacy: Understanding Contemporary Turkey through Its Ottoman Past (Joshua W. Walker) -- Cyrillization of Republika Srpska (Somdeep Sen) -- A brief comparison: Mexican and Peruvian National Identities (Isaías R. Rivera) -- SECTION IV THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT -- China's Role in the Challenge for Global Sustainable Development (Patrick Loy) -- Is Sustainable Capitalism an Oxymoron? (David Schweickart).