Part 1 Globalization - concepts, precedents, origins and implications: introduction - the problem of globalization; then and now - continuity and discontinuity in the international political economy; the roots of globalization; the ambiguous impact of globalization. Part 2 Sate action in question: the traditional purposes of state action; traditional forms of state action. Part 3 The future of state action: governance and future of state action - needs; modes of governance in a globalizing world; "state action" in an unmanageable world; order, disorder and globalization - the south east Asian crisis of 1997-1998.
