"The dramatic and ongoing reconfigurations of sociospatial relations throughout the world today - a process broadly referred to as "globalization" - are typically explained through accounts wholly dominated by agents and structures operating at national and global scales. However, as Rescaling International Political Economy demonstrates, localities and subnational states function as crucial sites of the struggle over the nature and direction of the global political economy." "In this path-breaking study, Darel E. Paul engages the fields of international political economy, geography, and international relations to execute a comparative study of three North American subnational states and spaces from the 1970s to the present. Examining these case studies through his own innovative theoretical framework, Paul highlights class conflict as well as the alliances across scales that serve as the local social foundations of transnational liberalism. Rescaling International Political Economy widens the terrain of contemporary political struggle and raises its stakes by demonstrating how urban space and subnational states have become critical battle-grounds over the nature of twenty-first century global capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.