This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Barry Gills is Professor of Global Politics at Newcastle University, UK His recent works include: Globalization in Crisis; Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development (co-edited with Patrick Manning); The Global Politics of Globalization: ‘Empire’ vs. ‘Cosmopolis’; Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice; Globalization and Global History (Co-edited with William R. Thompson); and The Globalization of Environmental Crisis (co-edited with Jan Oosthoek)He is Editor of Routledge journal Globalizations and Rethinking Globalizations book series, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Kevin Gray is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (London: Routledge, 2008) and a number of scholarly articles on the political economy of East Asia. He is Assistant Editor of the journal Globalizations and director of the Research Network on Global Governance and the Emerging Global South (SouthGovNet), funded by the Leverhulme Trust.