Private Authority and International Affairs

by Cutler, A. Claire; Haufler, Virginia; Porter, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780791441206
• ISBN10: 0791441202
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Preface	ix
PART 1 Introduction
Private Authority and International Affairs	3	(28)
A. Claire Cutler
Virginia Haufler
Tony Porter
PART 2 Ruling Themselves---Interfirm Organizing in the Global Arena
Lost in (Cyber)space: The Private Rules of Online Commerce	31	(22)
Debora L. Spar
Private and Public Management of International Mineral Markets	53	(44)
Michael C. Webb
The Standards Regime for Communication and Information Technologies	97	(32)
Liora Salter
Strategic Partnerships, Knowledge-Based Networked Oligopolies, and the State	129	(24)
Lynn K. Mytelka
Michel Delapierre
PART 3 Ruling Others---The Effects of Private International Authority
Bond-Rating Agencies and Coordination in the Global Political Economy	153	(16)
Timothy J. Sinclair
Multinational Corporations as Agents of Change: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights	169	(30)
Susan K. Sell
Self-Regulation and Business Norms: Political Risk, Political Activism	199	(24)
Virginia Haufler
Embedded Private Authority: Multinational Enterprises and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Movement in Ecuador	223	(34)
Pamela L. Burke
PART 4 The Evolution of Public and Private International Authority
Hegemony and the Private Governance of International Industries	257	(26)
Tony Porter
Private Authority in International Trade Relations: The Case of Maritime Transport	283	(50)
A. Claire Cutler
PART 5 Conclusion
The Contours and Significance of Private Authority in International Affairs	333	(44)
A. Claire Cutler
Virginia Haufler
Tony Porter
List of Contributors	377	(4)
Index	381