Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System

by Bieler,Andreas; Bieler,Andreas

• ISBN13: 9780415220859
• ISBN10: 0415220858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The chapters in this book explore the nature of the relationships between state and non-state actors in an evolving global economic order, where both strive to continue the same system of economic production under new conditions.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
List of acronyms	x
Contributors	xiv
Preface	xvi
Introduction: globalisation and non-state actors	1	(12)
Richard A. Higgott
Geoffrey R. D. Underhill
Andreas Bieler
PART I Theoretical considerations: the changing nature of authority relations	13	(36)
Who does what? Collective action and the changing nature of authority	15	(17)
Ann M. Florini
Grassroots empowerment: states, non-state actors and global policy formulation	32	(17)
Kendall W. Stiles
PART II Multinational companies and the establishment of international rules	49	(106)
Globalisation and policy convergence: the case of direct investments rules	51	(23)
Andrew Walter
State authority and investment security: non-state actors and the negotiation of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment at the OECD	74	(17)
Elizabeth Smythe
Structures, agents and institutions: private corporate power and the globalisation of intellectual property rights	91	(16)
Susan K. Sell
Business strategy and evolving rules in the Single European Market	107	(14)
Duncan Matthews
John F. Pickering
Private sector international regimes	121	(17)
Virginia Haufler
Corporate political action in the global polity: national and transnational strategies in the climate change negotiations	138	(17)
David L. Levy
Daniel Egan
PART III Multinational companies and the international restructuring of production	155	(54)
Alliance capitalism as industrial order: exploring new forms of interfirm competition in the globalising economy	157	(17)
Brian Portnoy
How global is Ford Motor Company's global strategy?	174	(19)
Maria Isabel Studer Noguez
Foreign capital, host-country-firm mandates and the terms of globalisation	193	(16)
Jochen Lorentzen
PART IV Globalisation and inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations	209	(81)
Private authority, scholarly legitimacy and political credibility: think tanks and informal diplomacy	211	(15)
Diane Stone
International trade rules and states: enhanced authority for the WTO?	226	(15)
Gilbert Gagne
The World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the environmental social movement	241	(15)
Marc Williams
`In the foothills': relations between the IMF and civil society	256	(18)
Jan Aart Scholte
Transnational environmental groups, media, science and public sentiment(s) in domestic policy-making on climate change	274	(16)
Susanne Jakobsen
Index	290