1 Globalization, Governance and the Transnationalization of a Secondary Contender State Paper presented at the 8 th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow, 3-6 September 2007. Critical Political Economy Research Network Mehmet Gürsan Şenalp Atilim University Faculty of Management Department of Economics, İncek Köyü – Ankara 06836 mgsenalp@atilim.edu.tr Örsan Şenalp Vrije University, Amsterdam orsan1234@hotmail.com Esra Şengör Atilim University, Faculty of Management Department of Economics, Incek Köyü – Ankara 00836 esengor@atilim.edu.tr