Contents: Jurgen Schriewer: Comparative Education Methodology in Transition: Towards a Science of Complexity? ? Claude Diebolt: Towards a Theory of Systemic Regulation? The Case of France and Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries ? Roger Dale: Globalization: A New World For Comparative Education? ? John W. Meyer/Francisco O. Ramirez: The World Institutionalization of Education ? Bernd Zymek: Domination, Legitimacy and Education: Max Weber’s Contribution to Comparative Education ? Gita Steiner-Khamsi: Transferring Education, Displacing Reforms ? Anthony Welch: New Times, Hard Times: Re-Reading Comparative Education in an Age of Discontent ? Nelly P. Stromquist: Contributions and Challenges of Feminist Theory to Comparative Education Research and Methodology ? Thomas S. Popkewitz: National Imaginaries, the Indigenous Foreigner, and Power: Comparative Educational Research ? Rolland Paulston: A Spatial Turn in Comparative Education? Constructing a Social Cartography of Difference.