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I. The Challenge of International Integration in Historical Perspective
1The First GlobalizationAmazon logo O'Rourke, K. H., and J. G. Williamson. Globalization and History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262650595.

Bordo, M., B. Eichengreen, and D. Irwin. "Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization 100 years Ago?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 7195, 1999.
2Trade and PoliticsRogowski, Ronald. "Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade." American Political Science Review 81, no. 4 (December 1987): 1121-1137.

Amazon logo Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780801494369.

Goldstein, Judith. "Ideas, Institutions and American Trade Policy." International Organization 42, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 179-217.
II. International Economic Openness and Growth
3Trade and the Postwar Growth SystemAmazon logo Eichengreen, Barry. "Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe after World War II." In Economic Growth in Europe since 1945. Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 38-72. ISBN: 9780521499644.

Amazon logo Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1968, chapters 1-5. ISBN: 9780192870018.

Ruggie, John. "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Order." International Organization 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 379-415.

Amazon logo Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation State. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000, chapters 1, 2, and 4. ISBN: 9780415216296.
4Trade and Development in the Postwar WorldAmazon logo The World Bank. "Trade and Development in the Postwar World." In Rethinking the East Asian Miracle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, Overview, and chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780195209938.

Amazon logo Stiglitz, J., and S. Yusuf. Rethinking the East Asian Miracle. New York, NY: World Bank Press, 2001, chapters 9, 10, and 11. ISBN: 9780195216004.

Amazon logo Moran, T., E. Graham, and M. Blomström. Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development? Washington, DC: Peterson Institute, 2005, chapters 2, 8, 11, and 14. ISBN: 9780881323818.
5Fragmenting Production SystemsSturgeon, Timothy. "Modular Production Networks: A New American Model of Industrial Organization." Industrial and Corporate Change 11, no. 3 (2002).

Gourevitch, P., R. E. Bohn, and D. McKendrick. "Who is Us? The Nationality of Production in the Hard Disk Drive Industry." Data Storage Industry Globalization Project Working Paper No. 97-01, UCSD.

Steinfeld, E. "Chinese Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Global Integration." MIT-IPC-02-001.
6International InstitutionsAmazon logo Helliner, Eric. States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, chapters 1-4, and 9. ISBN: 9780801428593.

Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: Institutions and the International Monetary System. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, chapters 1, 6, 7, and 8. (Forthcoming)
III. Globalization and its Impact
7Fragmentation and DevelopmentAmazon logo Kaplinsky, Raphael. Globalization, Poverty and Inequality. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007, chapters 3 and 6. ISBN: 9780745635545.
8Globalization and Institutional ConvergenceAmazon logo Hall, Peter A., and David Soskice. The Varieties of Capitalism. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 1-68. ISBN: 9780199247752.

Amazon logo Gourevitch, Peter, and James Shinn. Political Power and Corporate Control. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, chapters 1, 2, and 4-7. ISBN: 9780691122915.
9Inequality and Unemployment: The Effects of Globalization?Iversen, Torben, and Anne Wren. "Equality, Employment and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy." World Politics 50, no. 4 (July 1998): 507-546.

Burtless, Gary. "International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality." Journal of Economic Literature 33 (June 1995): 800-16.

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. "The Disturbing 'Rise' of Global Income Inequality." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 8904, April 2004.
10The End of Generous Welfare States?Levy, Jonah. "Vice into Virtue: Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe." Politics and Society 27, no. 2 (June 1999): 239-273.

Amazon logo Swank, Duane. Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, chapters 1, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780521001441.

Amazon logo Lindert, Peter. Growing Public. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, chapters 1, 10, and 11. ISBN: 9780521529167.
11Globalization and InnovationAmazon logo Zysman, John and Abraham Newman. How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, introduction and parts 1-4. ISBN: 9780804753357. (Forthcoming)

Amazon logo Ornston, Darius and Olli Rehn. "An Old Consensus in the 'New' Economy?" In How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? Edited by John Zysman and Abraham Newman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, introduction and parts 1-4. ISBN: 9780804753357. (Forthcoming)

Levy, Jonah. The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. (Forthcoming)
12Globalization and PoliticsFrieden, Jeffry. "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." International Organization 45 (1991): 425-451.

Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew Slaughter. "What Determines Individual Trade Policy Preferences?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 6531, April 1998.

Ancelovici, Marcos. "Organizing Against Globalization: The Case of ATTAC in France." Politics and Society 30, no. 3 (September 2002): 427-463.

 








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