Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System (Routledge Warwick Studies in Globalisation, 1)

✍ Scribed by Andreas Bieler, Richard A. Higgott, Geoffrey R. D. Underhill

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Routledge Warwick Studies in Globalisation,1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Traditionally in International Relations, power and authority were considered to rest with states. But recently, in the light of changes associated with globalisation, this has come under scrutiny both empirically and theoretically. This book analyses the continuing but changing role of states in the international arena, and their relationships with a wide range of non-state actors, which possess increasingly salient capabilities to structure global politics and economics.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of acronyms......Page 11
Contributors......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Introduction: globalisation and non-state actors......Page 20
Theoretical considerations: the changing nature of authority relations......Page 32
Who does what? Collective action and the changing nature of authority......Page 34
Grassroots empowerment: states, non-state actors and global policy formulation......Page 51
Multinational companies and the establishment of international rules......Page 68
Globalisation and policy convergence: the case of direct investment rules......Page 70
State authority and investment security: non-state actors and the negotiation of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment at the OECD......Page 93
Structures, agents and institutions: private corporate power and the globalisation of intellectual property rights......Page 110
Business strategy and evolving rules in the Single European Market......Page 126
Private sector international regimes......Page 140
Corporate political action in the global polity: national and transnational strategies in the climate change negotiations......Page 157
Multinational companies and the international restructuring of production......Page 174
Alliance capitalism as industrial order: exploring new forms of interfirm competition in the globalising economy......Page 176
How global is Ford Motor Company's global strategy?......Page 193
Foreign capital, host-country-firm mandates and the terms of globalisation......Page 212
Globalisation and inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations......Page 228
Private authority, scholarly legitimacy and political credibility: think tanks and informal diplomacy......Page 230
International trade rules and states: enhanced authority for the WTO?......Page 245
The World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the environmental social movement......Page 260
'In the foothills': relations between the IMF and civil society......Page 275
Transnational environmental groups, media, science and public sentiment(s) in domestic policy-making on climate change......Page 293
Index......Page 309