Economic and strategic power is not the exclusive province of powerful, developed countries. Kuwait has used its main resource, oil, to integrate itself into the world economy as an autonomous actor rather than as a dependent commodity exporter. This daring economic strategy enabled Kuwait to claim military support from governments hosting its direct investments overseas in 1990-91 following its invasion by Iraq. Based on five years of research, including interviews with more than 200 people, Dr. Tetreault's book analyzes the development of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation in the context of domestic, regional, and world politics. Contrary to current thinking, she argues that multinational vertical integration under state ownership can be an optimal strategy for oil-exporting, developing countries, particularly those whose resource endowments are otherwise highly limited. This book is directed toward executives in natural resource industries, economic and strategic planners in public and private institutions, and those charged with the formulation and implementation of national, international, and transnational economic policy; in addition, it is of interest to academics specializing in political economy, development, industrial organization, regional and domestic politics, and international relations.

Rethinking Global Political Economy contains incisive analysis of history, linguistics, class, culture, empirical data and normative concerns. This important volume presents innovative approaches to fundamental issues in global political economy. Together they provide multiple arguments and avenues for rethinking global political economy in a time of turmoil and system transformation. It will appeal to those interested in seeing new perspectives and healthy heterodoxy in the study of political economy.

Contents:
Introduction
1. New Odysseys in the Global Political Economy: Fundamentalist Contention and Economic Conflict Mary Ann Tétreault
2. Analytical Advances to Address New Dynamics V.Spike Peterson
3. Metageographical Moments: A Geohistorical interpretation of Embedded Statism and Globalization Peter J. Taylor
4. Creating Global Hegemony: Culture and the Market Barbara Jenkins
5. Globalization as Global History: Introducing a Dialectical Analysis Barry K. Gills
6. Mergers, Stagflation, and the Logic of Globalization Jonathan Nitzan
7. Global Dreams and Local Anger: From Structural to Acute Violence in a Globalizing World Peter Uvin
8. Globalization, "New" Trade Theory, and a Keynesian Reformist project Hartmut Elsenhans
9. Exploitation and Solidarity: Putting the Political Back into IPE Alejandro Colás
10. The Globalization of Human Affairs: A Reconsideration of Science, Political Economy, and World Order Clark Miller
11. Alternative Directions in the Study of the Global Political Economy Robert A. Denemark

Contents:
Introduction Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault 1. Nationalism Engendered: A Critique of Approaches to Nationalism, Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See 2. Writing Bodies on the Nation for the Globe, Zillah Eisenstein 3. Sexing Political Identities, V. Spike Peterson 4. The Politics of Gandhi's Feminism: Constructing Sitas Swaraj, Suresht Bald 5. Communalism, Nationalism and Gender: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Hindu Right in India, Geeta Chowdhry 6. Ulster's Red Hand: Gender, Identity and Sectarian Conflict in Northern Ireland, Mary K. Meyer 7. From Subjects to Citizens: Women and the Nation in Kuwait, Mary Ann Tetreault and Hay al-Mughni 8. (Gender) Struggles for the Nation: Power, Agency and Representation in Zimbabwe, Sita Ranchod-Nilsson 9. Citizen-soldiers or Republican Mothers: Citizenship and Military Obligations in an Era of 'Choice', Cheryl Logan Sparks 10. Women Warriors: The Paradox and Politics of Israeli Women in Uniform, Edna Leny, References

Women, States and Nationalism counters this attitude and examines the many and contradictory ways in which women negotiate their places in 'the nation'. The volume includes theoretical essays that explore the multiple ways in which the very concept of 'nation' is based upon notions of family, sexuality and gender power which are often overlooked of downplayed by 'male-stream' scholarship. It gathers together an outstanding panel of feminist scholars and area studies specialists, who, through a series of focused case studies, analyse diverse issues which include;
*gender and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland
*the paradox of Israeli women soldiers
*women, civic duty and the military in the USA
*the Hindu Right in India
*power, agency and representation in Zimbabwe
*political identity and heterosexism.
This timely volume is a highly valuable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism, Internationalism Studies and Women's Studies.

A sophisticated investigation of the shifting tides of democratic governance in modern Kuwait from 1921 to the present based on interviews both with political activists and members of the political elite, "Stories of Democracy" sheds light on a wide array of issues concerning Middle Eastern politics and democratic institutions in general.

Mary Ann T?treault explores how various political factions have sought to advance their own notions of Kuwaiti history and politics through distinctive popular appeals: (1) pro-democracy forces focusing on Kuwait's relationship to the universal values of the democratic world around them, and (2) anti-democrats proffering Arab and Muslim religious and cultural traditions. She explores how such dramatic events as the suspension of the Kuwaiti constitution in 1986 and the invasion by Iraq in 1990 occasioned major shifts in the course of the democracy movement. The current running through virtually all of the nation's political drama is the monolithic Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), used by the government as an instrument of economic strength to safeguard sovereignty in the absence of military might.