ABSTRACT
This volume brings together a set of essays each of which seeks to launch or elaborate on innovative approaches to fundamental issues in global political economy. Half of them had their start in a series of International Studies Association panels that I organized over a five-year period along with Dimitris Stevis. The panels looked at shifting boundaries between actors and sites of interaction among a variety of participants in the post-Cold War global political economy. The various papers examined basic premises for conceiving and analyzing world systems and global governance. In addition to essays developed from these panels, this collection includes invited contributions from scholars whose substantive expertise complements and whose normative and theoretical interests parallel those of the boundaries group participants.
