Introduction globalisation, competitiveness and human security, Cristobal Kay; globalisation, competitiveness and human security 0 challenges for development policy and institutional change, Helen O'Neill; globalisation and regional integration, Sandro Sideri; development, security and world order - a regionalist approach, Bjorn Hettne; globalisation - the last sky, Zuhair Dibaja; equity and growth revisited - a supply-side approach to social development, Jan Nederveeen Pieterse; the decentralisation discourse - post-Fordist paradigm or neo-liberal cul-de-sac? Frans J. Schuurman; opportunities and insecurities - globalisation, localities an struggle for urban land in Manila, Erhard Berner; institutional contradictions in rural development, Lars Engberg-Pedersen; against all odds -coping with regress in Kinshasa, Zaire, Tom de Herdt, Stefaan Marysse; recuperation in the Peruvian Andes, Fiona Wilson.