Transnational Private Governance and Its Limits

by Graz; Jean-Christophe

• ISBN13: 9780415414357
• ISBN10: 0415414350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume explores a variety of forms of transnational private governance where non-state actors cooperate across borders to establish rules and standards accepted as legitimate by other agents. Transnational private governance is a core feature of the devolution of power that we observe in the global realm and that is bringing about new forms of authority. Transnational Private Governance provides theoretically and empirically informed insights into the interactions between states and non-state actors including domains beyond intergovernmental organizations, conventional non-governmental organizations, and multinational enterprises, covering a wide range of arrangements, from highly formal devolutions of power to lax and informal platforms of interaction between private actors. Contributing to the latest generation of globalization studies, the authors consider the relationship between states and markets as closely integrated and seek to broaden the scope of enquiry by including newpatterns and agents of change on a transnational basis. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of political science, international political economy, economics, business studies, globalisation and law.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

List of tables and figures

List of abreviations

Preface

Introduction: beyond the fragmented debate on transnational private governance

(Self-)regulation in the financial sector

Keeping competitors out: industry structure and transnational private governance in global finance

Transnational expert-driven standardisation: accountancy governance from a professional point of view

Transnational private governance and the Basel process: banking regulation and supervision, private interests and Basel II

Transnational corporations facing labour, ecological, and consumers' concerns

The power of TNCs in transnational environmental private governance

Where to find a 'demos' for controlling global risk regulators? From private to public regulation and back

The potential and limits of governance by private codes of conduct

The private regulation of labour standards: the case of the apparel and footwear industries

Prospects and limits of avant-garde cases: the private regulation of the cyberspace

Transnational private governance of the internet: the roles of business

Who governs the internet? The emerging regime of e-commerce

Limitations to transnational private governance of the internet: the dot eu top level domain

Regional integration as a driving force towards transnational private governance

Public-private partnerships and transnational governance in the European Union: the case of the Lisbon strategy

Transnational private governance in the EU: when social partners bargain beyond borders stijn smismans

Self-regulation and public regulation: financial services and the out-of-court complaints bodies

Dispute resolution in international trade and investment law: privatisation of the public?

Conclusion: the limits of transnational private governance

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