Preface / Joseph Caron -- Introduction: International political economy and explanations of China's globalization / David Zweig, Chen Zhimin -- Beyond the disciplinary heartlands: studying China's international political economy / Shaun A. Breslin -- Soft balancing and reciprocal engagement:...

"States versus Markets shows that globalization is not a novel phenomenon but a recurrent process whereby markets have, since the sixteenth century, periodically redistributed economic activity. This revised and updated new edition takes account of the new rise of Asia and the global financial...