Lucid and broad-ranging in its scope, this interdisciplinary volume sheds light on the relationship between national policies, regional integration patterns and the wider global setting. A vital and much-needed study.

Introduction, William D. Coleman, Geoffrey R.D. Underhill; Part 1 Regional economic integration in the global economy; Chapter 1 Regional economic co-operation, global markets and domestic politics, Helen Milner; Chapter 2 The international political economy of regionalism, Richard Higgott; Chapter 3 Asia-Pacific regionalism versus globalization, Richard Stubbs; Chapter 4 In the whirlwind of globalization and multilateralism, Diana Tussie; Part 2 Public policy, globalization and regionalism; Chapter 5 ‘Subversive liberalism’, Martin Rhodes; Chapter 6 The social democratic predicament and global economic integration, Jonathon W. Moses; Chapter 7 Globalization, corporate identity and European Union technology policy, Andrew Wyatt-Walter; Chapter 8 Regional versus global discipline, Monika Sie Dhian Ho, Klaas Werkhorst; Chapter 9 Strapped to the mast, Kenneth Dyson, Kevin Featherstone, George Michalopoulos; Part 3 Supranational governance and regulation; Chapter 10 Regionalism, globalization, and ‘professional society’, Yves Dezalay; Chapter 11 Globalization, regionalism and the regulation of securities markets, William D. Coleman, Geoffrey R.D. Underhill;