Introduction: political economy, rationality, and social science -- Structure, nation-states, power, and order in an international context -- Economic liberalism and market exchange in the global arena -- The micro approach to political and economic market in theory and practice -- The dilemma of collective action: who organizes, who does not, and why -- The role of hegemonic leadership and its micro foundations -- Interest groups and international economic foundations of political cleavage -- The role of institutions in political and economic market failure -- Around the world in eighty days: a stage of modern globalization -- The world between the wars: a breakdown in globalization -- The bretton wooods system: the rebuilding of globalization -- The world post-bretton woods: globalization advances -- Detente and the end of the cold war: globalization during transition -- Into the future: political and economic market failures and treats to globalization

1. Economics -- Political aspects
2. Globalization
3. International economic relations
4. Nation-state
5. World politics