Private authority and international affairs / edited A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cutler, A. Claire.

Haufler, Virginia, 1957-

Porter, Tony, 1953-

Simon Nelson Patten Fund.

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Congresses.

International business enterprises.

International trade--Congresses.

International trade.

International cooperation--Congresses.

International cooperation.

International economic relations--Congresses.

International economic relations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 389 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]

Summary:

Governments today are too often unwilling to intervene in global commerce, and international organizations are too often unable to govern effectively. In their place, firms increasingly cooperate internationally to establish the rules and standards of behavior for themselves and for others, taking on the mantle of authority to govern specific issue areas. Are they stepping into the breach to supply needed collective goods? Or are they organizing themselves in order to prevent governments from interfering in their business? This book explores the meaning of this private international authority, both for theory and policy, through case studies of specific industries, associations, and issue areas in both contemporary and historical perspective.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Private Authority and International Affairs / A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, Tony Porter 3

Part 2 Ruling Themselves

Interfirm Organizing in the Global Arena

Chapter 2 Lost in (Cyber)space: The Private Rules of Online Commerce / Debora L. Spar 31

Chapter 3 Private and Public Management of International Mineral Markets / Michael C. Webb 53

Chapter 4 The Standards Regime for Communication and Information Technologies / Liora Salter 97

Chapter 5 Strategic Partnerships, Knowledge-Based Networked Oligopolies, and the State / Lynn K. Mytelka, Michel Delapierre 129

Part 3 Ruling Others

The Effects of Private International Authority

Chapter 6 Bond-Rating Agencies and Coordination in the Global Political Economy / Timothy J. Sinclair 153

Chapter 7 Multinational Corporations as Agents of Change: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights / Susan K. Sell 169

Chapter 8 Self-Regulation and Business Norms: Political Risk, Political Activism / Virginia Haufler 199

Chapter 9 Embedded Private Authority: Multinational Enterprises and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Movement in Ecuador / Pamela L. Burke 223

Part 4 The Evolution of Public and Private International Authority

Chapter 10 Hegemony and the Private Governance of International Industries / Tony Porter 257

Chapter 11 Private Authority in International Trade Relations: The Case of Maritime Transport / A. Claire Cutler 283

Chapter 12 The Contours and Significance of Private Authority in International Affairs / A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, Tony Porter 333.

Notes:

Papers initiated from a workshop in San Diego in 1996 and a conference at the University of Victoria (B.C.) the following August.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Simon Nelson Patten Fund.

Presented by The American Academy of Political and Social Science in memory of Simon Nelson Patten; 1999/2000.

ISBN:

0791441199

0791441202

OCLC:

39157547