Introduction: Boundaries crossing--critical theories of global economy - - Nature, need, and the human world: "Commercial Society" and the construction of the world economy - - The "Properties" of the state system and global capitalism - - Hobbes, Smith, and the problem of mixed ontologies in neorealist IPE - - Timeless space and state-centrism: the geographical assumptions of international relations theory - - Reginas in international relations: occulusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives - - Latin American voices of resistance: women's movements and development debates - - Foreign policy and identity: Japanese "Other"/American "Self" - - Between globalism and nationalism in Post-Cold War German political economy - - Inscribing the nation: Nehru and the politics of identity in India - - Development as a civilizing process: state formation in Mexico.