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Gilpin spells out the main features of the growing backlash and is most acute in his critique of the simplistic views that globalization is either nirvana or Armageddon. But the most important thesis of the book--and its most important contribution to the discipline of international political economy--is that the future of globalization ultimately rests on political foundations, not on the merits or demerits of the now dominant neoliberal paradigm. Like Schumpeter (and unlike Marx), Gilpin stresses that policy is the product of politics, not economics; unlike the international regime theorists who extend to the political domain the basic optimizing assumptions of economic theory, he stresses that the real world of political economy is too messy and prone to accident and error to support this reductionist model of policymaking."The demonstrations accompanying the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last fall show that global capitalism indeed faces many big challenges. Although Gilpin proclaims the merits of globalization, his analysis is scholarly and dispassionate. He warns that the international capitalist system requires a "strong and wise" leadership to promote international cooperation and establish and enforce rules regulating international trade, investment, and monetary affairs. He also emphasizes the need for that leadership to "ensure at least minimal safeguards for the inevitable losers from market forces and from the process of creative destruction." (David Rouse, www.amazon.de)