1. A better approach to understanding foreign direct investment and multinational corporations
2. Defining the subject : subtleties and ambiguities
3. From obscurity to international economic powerhouse : the evolution of multinational corporations
4. Heterogeneity : the many kinds of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations and their disparate effects
5. Perceptions and economic ideologies
Pt. II. The strategy of multinationals
6. Why companies invest overseas
7. Where multinational corporations invest and don't invest and why
Pt. III. Impact on the international order
8. Effects of foreign direct investment on less developed countries : vagaries, variables, negatives, and positives
9. Why and how multinational corporations have altered international trade
10. Multinational corporations versus the nation-state : has sovereignty been outsourced?
11. The international regulation of multinational corporations : why there is no multilateral foreign direct investment regime
12. The case for foreign direct investment and multinational corporations
13. The case against foreign direct investment and multinational corporations
14. An agnostic conclusion : "it depends"
15. An agenda for future action.
