Introduction: The Global Corporate Agenda -- 1. Public Goods, Public Risk and Power Struggles -- 2. Nation States: Facilitating and Accommodating Globalisation -- 3. Modernising the State: A Third Way for Competition -- 4. Modernising the State: New Organisation and New Management? -- 5. The Emerging Corporate-Welfare Complex -- 6. The Price of Neo-Liberal Modernisation -- 7. The Nation State in 2020 -- 8. Redesigning the State - A New Public Order -- 9. A New Public Service Management -- 10. New Strategies and Alliances