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.

Including contributions from leading scholars from Algeria, France, Germany, India and the United States this book traces the rise and turn to moderation of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements, often labelled in the West as fundamentalists. Arguing that culturally based ideologies are often the instruments, rather than the motivating force though which segments of a rising middle strata challenge entrenched elites the expert contributors trace the rise of these movements to changes in their respective countries' political economy and class structures. This approach explains why, as a result of an ongoing contestation and recreation of bourgeois values, the more powerful of these movements then tend towards moderation. As Western countries realise the need to engage with the more moderate wings of fundamentalist political groups their rationale and aims become of increasing importance and so academics, decision-makers and business people interested in South Asia and the Muslim world will find this an invaluable account.

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.

Partial Truths and the Politics of Community considers what happens after feminists succeed in achieving social change or in founding organizations dedicated to accomplishing their personal and social goals. This collection of eighteen essays by scholars from the fields of international relations and feminist studies explores the theoretical dilemmas and practical politics of living with raised consciousnesses in ""worlds of our own making."" The contributors explore feminisms as dreams of human rights, as a cluster of ideologies, and as a bounty of social practices set within frameworks for tackling problems in nation-building and global governance. In essays that illustrate the impact of feminist concerns with the quality of education, the contributors offer studies of homeschooling, of the education of impoverished girls in rural Mexico, of sororities and their relation to female autonomy, and of the teaching of prisoners by volunteers in county jails. Other contributors call for a greater attention to the ecology of social life, viewing society as a complex of individuals bound to one another through webs of transactions and obligations. These contributors recount examples from Northern Ireland, Poland, and the United States in which such webs sometimes support and sometimes strangle efforts to achieve human dignity and autonomy. Evaluating progress made in the legal realm, other contributors chart the opportunities and limitations of international and domestic law as tools to advance and protect human rights. They consider gender discrimination in universities and colleges, the United Nations and its mixed record on women's issues, and the effects of adding rape to the list of prosecutable war crimes. The volume concludes with two works on how feminism supports democratic constructions of science and religion, with results that destabilize dominant institutions in both realms.

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.

A look at more than a century of feminist activism around the world Conscious Acts and the Politics of Social Change counters the notion, widely propagated by antifeminist forces, that feminists represent a group of socially deviant outsiders. In fifteen essays that explore feminist projects to advance human freedom, social activists and academic analysts find feminists to be typical members of their society who promote social movements for nonviolent change in law-abiding ways. Foiling the picture of aberrance, they portray feminists as grandmothers demonstrating quietly in city squares, mothers distributing "subversive" literature from their babies' strollers, and pious women taking issue with politicians who use religion to justify repressive legislation. The contributors also contend that feminism has been a strong force for building civil society and fighting oppression in political and social systems throughout the world. The essays offer a range of reports on feminist theory and activism, some of which celebrate success stories, including the struggle of American women who fight for suffrage, of Czechoslovaks who resist Communist censorship, of Chilean women who want to end the oppressive Pinochet regime by demanding an accounting of their "disappeared" children. Other essays relate failures--the use of an organization intended to provide assistance to Russian families to gain publicity for its American director and to embezzle funds for her local assistants, the clash among women's groups in Iowa that contributed to the defeat of a state equal rights amendment. The remaining essays consider the persistence of socially ambiguous behavior such as lying, violence, cruelty, and discrimination. Collectively the case studies provide opportunities to investigate the characteristics and strategies that have affected positive social change--and those that have not--with an eye toward understanding how persons who want to initiate constructive social change might do so with the resources at their disposal.