Jayasuriya explores the dynamics of a new social agenda conceived within the boundaries of neo liberalism. The enhanced focus on issues such as poverty through strategies of inclusion frames new terms of engagement for social policy, different from that which existed in the terrain of the post war welfare state.

Acknowledgements Preface Economic Constitutionalism and Social Inclusion: Transforming Liberalism Capability, Freedom and the Third Way The Illiberal Politics of Neo Liberal Welfare Contractualism Contractualism and Transnational Welfare Governance The New Regulatory State and the Social Market in Korea Statecraft and Social Contracts: A Populist Market Citizenship in Thailand The New Politics of Inclusion Notes References Index

KANISHKA JAYASURIYA is Principal Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia. He is author of Reconstituting the Global Liberal Order: Legitimacy and Regulation.