Globalisation is an issue that has been high on the research agenda for several years, spawning a vast and at times unwieldy literature. A concept often ill-defined, it has generated a plethora of unresolved and fiercely contested questions, the nature of which depends on which side of the...

Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Introduction and overview / Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes Linn -- International institutional reform -- IMF reform : congruence with global governance reform / Jack Boorman -- Strengthening the IMF : lessons from history / James M. Boughton -- The World Bank :...