Taking Globalisation Seriously

Abstract

A decade of debate around the idea of globalisation is at last giving rise to a promising response which can challenge the swaggering triumph of neoliberalism. This essay reviews the debates within the framework of conventional international political economy, in which the central issue is the relationship between the global economy and the nation-state; suggests a critique of this framework, based on a less state-centred analysis of global capitalism; and, finally, briefly points to the political conclusions that flow from this critique.