This book arose out of two workshops held at the Center for International
Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1999
and the fall of 2000. We wish to thank each of the authors for his intellectual
generosity and commitment to the overall success of the project. We
also benefited from the thoughtful contributions of Martin Beversdorf,
Douglas Fuller, Gerald Hane, Andrew Procassini, Rahardi Ramelon, and
John Zysman. Peter Katzenstein deserves special thanks for serving as discussant
and mentor throughout the project. We also wish to acknowledge
the able research assistance of Wenkai He. Finally, our job as the project organizers
was made immeasurably easier by the organizational and editorial
skills of Amy Briemer, Andrea Gabbitas, Tisha Gomes, and Laurie Scheffler.