In this book, ten substantive chapters examine how collisions between technological developments (globalizing forces) and thickening populist pressures (localizing dynamics) constantly keep reinventing the state in unforeseen and unpredictable ways. We learn of how international organizations have fared, and to what extent grass-roots grumbles have impacted big-picture developments in quite diverse parts of the world. Just placing unfolding crises under the microscope cannot but generate policy-solving observations. Treated in corresponding order, these crises revolve around adjusting international institutions; absorbing current populist outbursts; shifting from peacekeeping to peacemaking; spying in the global south; absorbing displaced persons; Rwandan land reform; pandemic and RMG readjustments; Bangladesh's democratic transition; Rohingyan-Syrian refugees; and Mexico's 1990s liberalization. Though overarching, observations in the book accent state strength battling with state porosity; the downward spiraling of global order; and the simple lack of any controlling mechanism against globalizing/localizing dynamics in the trenches of everyday life being matched by continued uncertainty on the analytical plane. A Professor of Global Studies & Governance, at Independent University, Bangladesh, Imtiaz A. Hussain previously worked in Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (1995-2013) and Philadelphia University (1990-94). His books include: Glocal-Local Tradeoffs (2022); Rohingya Camp Narratives (2022); Transatlantic Transitions (2018), North American Regionalism and Global Spread (2015); Evaluating NAFTA (2013); Border Governance and the 'Unruly' South (2013); North America's Soft Security Threat (2013), Afghanistan-Iraq and Post-conflict Governance (2010); Impact of NAFTA on North America (2010); North American Homeland Security (2008); Running on Empty Across Central America (2006), and Globalization, Indigenous Groups, and Mexico's Plan Puebla Plan (2006).

His articles can be found in Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence (2008), South Asian Survey (2008), Politics & Policy (2008), Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (2006), and Norteamérica (2006). A recipient of over 12 international fellowships and 8 teaching awards, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.