Over the past decade, a virtual cottage industry has arisen to produce books and articles describing the nature, origins, and impact of globalization. Largely and surprisingly absent from this literature, however, has been extensive discussion of how globalization is affecting the United States itself. Indeed, it is rarely even acknowledged that while the United States may be providing a crucial impetus to globalization, the process of globalization - once set in motion - has become a force unto itself. Thus globalization has its own logic and demands that are having a profound impact within the United States, often in ways that are unanticipated.

This set offers the first in-depth, systematic effort at assessing the United States not as a globalizing force but as a nation being transformed by globalization. Among the topics studied are globalization in the form of intensified international linkages; globalization as a universalizing and/or Westernizing force; globalization in the form of liberalized flows of trade, capital, and labor; and globalization as a force for the creation of transnational and superterritorial entities and allegiances. These volumes examine how each of these facets of globalization affects American government, law, business, economy, society, and culture.

Beverly Crawford is Associate Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written extensively on topics such as ethnic conflict, American foreign policy, European politics, German foreign policy, technology transfer policy, and post-communist transitions. She is also the author of Economic Vulnerability in International Relations and German Power and Foreign Policy. She teaches International Political Economy and American Foreign Policy in International and Area Studies at the University of California Berkeley.

Michelle Bertho is Program Coordinator at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught The Enlargement of the European Union in International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and previously at San Francisco State University. Her current research is on private funding and development. Before joining the academic world, Bertho was an international consultant and worked extensively in Europe, the United States, and Africa.

Edward A. Fogarty is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and published work focuses on global governance and nonstate actors, international trade, and the European Union. He has taught courses at the University of California, Berkeley on the European Union, U.S. foreign policy, and international institutions.