1. Living in the Global / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift -- 2. The Local Embeddedness of Transnational Corporations / Peter Dicken, Mats Forsgren and Anders Malmberg -- 3. Global Agro-Food Complexes and the Refashioning of Rural Europe / Sarah Whatmore -- 4. The Uneven Landscape of Innovation Poles: Local Embeddedness and Global Networks / Franz Todtling -- 5. Growth Regions under Duress: Renewal Strategies in Baden Wurttemberg and Emilia-Romagna / Philip Cooke and Kevin Morgan -- 6. Flexible Districts, Flexible Regions? The Institutional and Cultural Limits to Districts in an Era of Globalization and Technological Paradigm Shifts / Amy Glasmeier -- 7. Regulating Labour: The Social Regulation and Reproduction of Local Labour-Markets / Jamie Peck -- 8. The Disembedded Regional Economy: The Transformation of East German Industrial Complexes into Western Enclaves / Gernot Grabher.

9. Institutional Change, Cultural Transformation, and Economic Regeneration: Myths and Realities from Europe's Old Industrial Areas / Ray Hudson -- 10. Local and Regional Broadcasting in the New Media Order / Kevin Robins and James Cornford -- 11. Global-Local Social Conflicts: Examples from Southern Europe / Costis Hadjimichalis -- 12. Holding Down the Global / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.