National Differences in the Face of Pressures to Converge -- Introduction: Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century -- European Economic Integration: The Threat to Modell Deutschland -- Stranded on the Common Ground?: Global Governance and State Power in England and Canada -- Assessing the Globalization–Decentralization Nexus: Patterns of Education and Reform in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Nicaragua -- Trans-National Policy Prescriptions -- Tracking Neo-Liberalism: Labour Market Policies in the OECD Area -- Social Economy Policies as Flanking Mechanisms for Neo-Liberalism: Trans-national Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives -- Assessing the Convergence Thesis of Legal Reforms in Emerging Market Economies -- Labour: A Special Case in the Global Economy? -- Governance, Trade and Labour Mobility -- Neo-Liberal Policies and Immigrant Women in Canada -- The Need for Reform -- The Logic of Neo-Liberalism and the Political Economy of Consumer Debt-Led Growth -- World Trade and World Money: The Case for a New World Currency Unit -- Multilateral Institution-Building in a Neo-Liberal Era: The Case of Competition Policy -- The World Trade Organization and Global Governance -- Human Welfare and the Future of the World Trade Organization: Rethinking the International Institutional Architecture -- The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century? -- Conclusion: The Need to Rebuild the Public Domain.