The politics of globalization include nation-states pursuing power, multinational firms seeking profits for their shareholders, coalitions and networks attempting to promote particular visions of future possible worlds, resistance groups ranging from the nonviolent to the murderous, and ordinary people struggling to feed their families and secure their futures in a rapidly changing world. Globalization and International Political Economy examines processes of globalizing capitalism and the complex politics that are emerging from it—processes and struggles that will determine the shape of our world in the twenty-first century.

"Accessible to a much wider audience than most such analyses of global political economy. While many approaches to the study of international political economy see the expansion of free trade and the global division of labor as necessary and inevitable corollaries of the free market, this work places globalization in the context of the wills of political actors. . . . Ultimately, it is about politics and the political basis for the global economy. Essential." - CHOICE