Barry K. Gills is Reader in International Politics at the University of Newcastle, UK and Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, USA. William R. Thompson is Rogers Professor of Political Science at the University of Indiana, USA.

1. In Memoriam: Andre Gunder Frank (24 February 1929 to 23 April 2005) 2. 'Empire' versus 'Cosmopolis': The clash of globalizations 3. Empire or cosmopolis? Civilization at the crossroads 4. From market globalism to imperial globalism: Ideology and american power after 9/11 5. Capital, class and the state in the global political economy 6. The long downward wave of the world economy and the future of global conflict 7. The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics 8. At the global crossroads: The end of the Washington Consensus and the rise of global social democracy? 9. Globalization, cosmopolitanism, and the Kantian revival: Commentary on David Held's 'At the global crossroads' 10. Tasks of a global civil society: Held, habermas and democratic legitimacy beyond the nation-state 11. The changing face of anti-globalization politics: Two (and a half) tales of globalization and anti-globalization 12. The Porto Alegre Consensus: Theorizing the forum movement 13. The new imperial conjuncture and alternative futures for twenty-first century global political economy

Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book brings together a very distinguished set of contributors to explore and debate the relationship between globalization processes and world order in light of recent controversies over the return of 'empire'.