* Manochehr Dorraj (ed) Middle East at the Crossroads: The Internal Dynamics and the Foreign Policy Challenges (University Press of America, 1999).

     * Theodore H. Cohn Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice, (432 pages), (Addison Wesley Longman, New York, 1999).

     * Pierre P. Lizee Peace, Power, and Resistance in Cambodia: Global Governance and the Failure of International Conflict Resolution. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1999.

     * Tony Evans (ed) Human Rights Fifty Years On: A Reappraisal. (Manchester, Manchester University Press) (St. Martin's in the USA), 1998. This has contributions from Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Christine Chinkin, Caroline Thomas and Anthony McGrew among others.

     * Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Second Edition), (Oxford University Press, 1999).
     How will global order unfold as we move into the next millennium? With this basic question as a starting point, leading scholars in politics, economics and international relations from 10 different countries (many of whom are GDS section members) have written 33 chapters specially commissioned for this new second edition of POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE CHANGING GLOBAL ORDER. The book ranges widely, covering developments at global, regional and national levels, key issues and trends, and the changing policies of major state actors, as well as presenting a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives. Particular emphasis is given to the role of the state in the international political economy, the increasing importance of non-state actors, and the growing influence of both public and private forms of transnational governance.

     *Shepard Forman and Stewart Patrick (eds) Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid For Post-Conflict Recovery, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, January 2000).
     This comparative study is concerned with the causes--and consequences-- of failures to fulfill pledges of aid to post conflict countries. In each of six case studies, the coauthors (including one scholar from a donor state and one from a recipient) first establish the sources, composition, and objectives of pledged aid and examine aid conditionality, delivery, and coordination. They then trace aid absorption, benefits, and impact on peace building and economic recovery. Finally, they assess the causes, consequences, and lessons of pledge gaps: What explains shortfalls in aid delivery? What social, economic, and political difficulties have ensued? And what does the experience suggest for future multilateral efforts at transition assistance? Good intentions notwithstanding, it is clear that recurrent delays and failures in aid follow-through can threaten vulnerable polities whose collapse would endanger regional peace and security.

     * Gillian Youngs 'International Relations in a Global Age: A Conceptual Challenge' (Cambridge: Polity, 1999).
     This volume investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global political, economic and cultural processes. The arguments draw on a range of critical approaches including gender analysis and post-structuralism. The book is divided into three sections: 1.Inside State-centrism; 2.Beyond State-centrism; 3.The Spaces of Global Relations. Links are made between the concerns of those studying international relations and international political economy, and of those working on globalization in a range of disciplines. The book is oriented particularly towards researchers, lecturers and students in international relations, international/global political economy, gender and women's studies, international communications, development studies, social theory and political geography.

     * Gillian Youngs (ed) 'Political Economy, Power and the Body: Global Perspectives' (London: Macmillan, 1999).
     This volume features contributions by Section members and lays important groundwork in this new area. To facilitate its use by lecturers and students, it has been organized to provide an introductory section of three chapters which set out a number of detailed theoretical arguments relevant to the work which follows. The individual chapters bring theory and practice together and cover areas such as: Disney and symbolic consumption; global food consumption patterns and identity issues; reproductive technology. The book is designed as a teaching as well as research text particularly aimed at IR, IPE and women's studies.

     * Marianne H. Marchand (University of Amsterdam) and Anne Sisson Runyan (Wright State University) (eds) Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, and Resistances. London: Routledge 2000.
     How does gender analysis move us to more complex understanding of global restructuring? This and many other provocative questions are addressed in this ground breaking book. Filling a significant gap, Gender and Global Restructuring provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization and its relationship to gender. Feminist experts from a range of disciplines take the reader beyond narrow interpretations of globalization and show the complexities and contradictions of ongoing global transformations, referred to as global restructuring. The book represents a significant critique of the gender blindness of both neo-liberal and critical accounts of globalization and foregrounds feminist accounts which stress women's agency, not just victimization, in relation to global restructuring. It reveals how states, markets, civil society, households and gender identities are simultaneously being restructured in different ways in different regional and national contexts. It also shows how women's resistances connect the global and the local, the public and the private.

     * Wendy Harcourt (ed) 'Women@Internet' (London: Zed, 1999). This book brings an international group of academics, practitioners and activists together to explore the meanings and potential of the Internet for women's lives and social goals.