Valerie Sperling is Associate Professor of Government and International Relations at Clark University. She is the author of Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and the editor of Building the Russian State (2000). Her research on the Russian women's movement, as well as on militarism and patriotism in Russia, has been published in Nations & Nationalism, Women & Politics, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and numerous edited volumes.

• 1. Transnational institutions and accountability; 2. For richer, for poorer: economic globalization; 3. Democracy from abroad? Political globalization; 4. Army for hire: transnational military forces; 5. Trials and tribulations: transnational judicial institutions; 6. My country is the whole world: transnational civil society; 7. Conclusion: altered states and altered citizens.

'Altered States is an excellent book that is broad ranging and provides a rich store of insights on crucial aspects of globalization that are rarely addressed in depth with this level of flair. It is gracefully written and full of incisive points on the big issues it tackles. The book is timely and will find a wide audience in political science, sociology, and the broader attentive public outside academia.' Steven Fish, University of California, Berkeley