Multinationals in the Global Political Economy looks at the new diplomacy between the multinational firm and the nation-state, focusing on the interdependencies, conflictual and co-operative, between the two primary actors in the global economy.

Preface; L.Eden & E.Potter - Notes on the Contributors - Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Multinationals in the Global Political Economy; L.Eden - Sovereignty at Bay Twenty Years After; R.Vernon - Bringing the Firm back in: Multinationals in International Political Economy; L.Eden - Governments and Multinational Enterprises: From Confrontation to Co-operation?; J.H.Dunning - Drawing the Border for a Multinational Enterprise and a Nation State?; A.M.Rugman - Big Business and the State; S.Strange - TNCs in the Third World: Stability or Discontinuity?; R.Kaplinsky - Multinationals and Developing Countries: Some Issues for Research; S.Lall - The Competitiveness of Countries and Their Multinational Firms; M.Blomstr m & R.E.Lipsey - No Entry: Sectoral Controls on Incoming Direct Investment in the Developed Countries; R.T.Kudrle - Marketing Strategies to attract Foreign Investment; L.T.Wells Jr & A.G.Wint - Bibliography - Indexes