Summary
Explores in detail the degree to which private sector firms are beginning to replace governments in "governing" some areas of international relations.
Author Biography
Pamela L. Burke is a Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland, College Park A. Claire Cutler is Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Law in the Political Science Department, University of Victoria, Canada Michel Delapierre is a Charge de Recherche in the CNRS and Director of the Centre de Recherche sur les Entreprises Multinationales, Universite de Paris-X, Nanterre Virginia Haufler is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park Lynn Krieger Mytelka is current Director of the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva Tony Porter is Associate Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Liora Salter is Professor of Law at Osgoode Law School, York University, Canada, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Susan K. Sell is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University Timothy J. Sinclair is a member of the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, and is an external research associate at the Center for International and Security Studies, York University, Toronto Debora Spar is Associate Professor at Harvard Business School Michael C. Webb is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada
Table of Contents
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Preface |
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PART 1 Introduction |
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Private Authority and International Affairs |
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PART 2 Ruling Themselves---Interfirm Organizing in the Global Arena |
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Lost in (Cyber)space: The Private Rules of Online Commerce |
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Private and Public Management of International Mineral Markets |
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The Standards Regime for Communication and Information Technologies |
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Strategic Partnerships, Knowledge-Based Networked Oligopolies, and the State |
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PART 3 Ruling Others---The Effects of Private International Authority |
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Bond-Rating Agencies and Coordination in the Global Political Economy |
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Multinational Corporations as Agents of Change: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights |
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169 | (30) |
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Self-Regulation and Business Norms: Political Risk, Political Activism |
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Embedded Private Authority: Multinational Enterprises and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Movement in Ecuador |
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223 | (34) |
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PART 4 The Evolution of Public and Private International Authority |
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Hegemony and the Private Governance of International Industries |
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Private Authority in International Trade Relations: The Case of Maritime Transport |
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283 | (50) |
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PART 5 Conclusion |
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The Contours and Significance of Private Authority in International Affairs |
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List of Contributors |
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Index |
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