Table of Contents

Introduction Perception, Representation, Theory Construction and the Globalization Debate Performative Discourse and Social Form Configuring the Global: Globalization as a Spatio-Temporal Narrative Buisness Globalization and the Offshore Economy The Private Economy of Postnational State Reinventing Government as Governance The Anti Economy of Social Exclusion Conclusion

About the Author

My work lies at the intersection between international relations, political economy, political theory, sociology and human geography. I have been working for many years on three interrelated areas. I am particularly interested in state theory and in the changing nature of the state and modes of governance in the contemporary globalised economy. I have written on the changing nature of the state in the age of globalisation. I am interested not only in the most powerful states, but also in the smallest states in the world, the tax havens, which have become, together with offshore finance, a second area of research interest. I have done in additional considerable research on different facets of contemporary theory, from realism to constructivism to post-Marxism. I am particularly interested in developing an alternative approach to political economy drawn on evolutionary institutionalism, post-rationalist perspectives and libidinal theories of political economy, the latter often confused with poststructuralism

Reviews

"More geographically oriented, Cameron and Palan's book examines contemporary perspectives on globalization and implications for state and corporate policies." -- James Saku, Frostburg State University