Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Leadership Selection in the Major Multilaterals, and editor most recently of Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance, also from Cornell. David A. Lake is Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Hierarchy in International Relations, also from Cornell, and coauthor of World Politics: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions.

• Introduction: Anatomy of Crisis: The Great Recession and Political Changeby Miles Kahler and David A. LakePart I. Crises and Politics: Is This Time Different?1. Economic Crisis and Global Governance: The Stability of a Globalized Worldby Miles Kahler2. Politics in Hard Times Revisited: The 2008–9 Financial Crisis in Emerging Marketsby Stephan Haggard3. Partisan Financial Cyclesby J. Lawrence Broz4. The Politics of Hard Times: Fiscal Policy and the Endogeneity of Economic Recessionsby Pablo M. PintoPart II. Interests, Coalitions, and Consequences5. The Political Origins of Our Economic Discontents: Contemporary Adjustment Problems in Historical Perspectiveby Peter A. Hall6. Puzzles from the First Globalizationby Suzanne Berger7. Portfolio Politics in the New Hard Times: Crises, Coalitions, and Shareholders in the United States and Germanyby James Shinn8. Coalition of Losers: Why Agricultural Protectionism Survives during the Great Recessionby Megumi Naoi and Ikuo Kume9. Crafting Trade Strategy in the Great Recession: The Obama Administration and the Changing Political Economy of the United Statesby Peter Cowhey10. Worlds in Collision: Uncertainty and Risk in Hard Timesby Peter J. Katzenstein and Stephen C. NelsonAfterword: Yet More Hard Times? Reflections on the Great Recession in the Frame of Earlier Hard Timesby Peter A. GourevitchReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex

Kahler and Lake bring together a wide range of scholars in the areas of political science, international relations, and risk management to systematically analyze the political causes and consequences of the great recession from a different perspective. By disregarding an economic explanatory framework of the great recession in favor of a political genesis perspective of the crisis, the contributors offer sound analyses of past and contemporary endogenous events that contributed to the crisis, shaped choices by political actors, and produced varying consequences.(Choice)