Introduction / Paul Bowles -- From lucky country to banana republic? : the political economy of Australian development in a long-run perspective / Ray Broomhill -- The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) : reinforcing re-peripheralisation / Patricia Ranald -- Contesting neoliberal globalism in Australia : opportunities for progressive alternatives / Frank Stilwell -- State formation and class formations within the global context : the political economy of Canadian development in a long-run perspective / Stephen McBride -- Canada's free-trade agreements with the USA and Mexico : the exaggeration of North American trade / Erin Weir -- Contesting neoliberal globalism in Canada : a sovereign country in an interdependent world / Gordon Laxer -- From the frontier of the empire : the political economy of Mexican development in a long-run perspective / M. Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces -- Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement : re-peripheralisation under the labour export-led model / James M. Cypher and Paúl Delgado Wise -- Contesting neoliberal globalism in Mexico : challenges for the political and the social left / Gerardo Otero -- Re-peripheralisation and its alternatives : comparative conclusions / Paul Bowles and Ray Broomhill.