Private authority and international affairs

Author(s)

• Cutler, A. Claire
• Haufler, Virginia Ann
• Porter, Tony

Bibliographic Information

Private authority and international affairs

edited by A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter

（SUNY series in global politics / James N. Rosenau, editor）

State University of New York Press, c1999

• : pbk

Note

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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. [Contributors include Pamela Burke, Lynn Mytelka and Michel Delapierre, Liora Salter, Susan Sell, Timothy Sinclair, Deborah Spar, and Michael Webb.]

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Preface Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Private Authority and International Affairs A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter 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 Chapter 3 Private and Public Management of International Mineral Markets Michael C. Webb Chapter 4 The Standards Regime for Communication and Information Technologies Liora Salter Chapter 5 Strategic Partnerships, Knowledge-Based Networked Oligopolies, and the State Lynn K. Mytelka and Michel Delapierre 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 Chapter 7 Multinational Corporations as Agents of Change: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights Susan K. Sell Chapter 8 Self-Regulation and Business Norms: Political Risk, Political Activism Virginia Haufler Chapter 9 Embedded Private Authority: Multinational Enterprises and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Movement in Ecuador Pamela L. Burke Part 4 The Evolution of Public and Private International Authority Chapter 10 Hegemony and the Private Governance of International Industries Tony Porter Chapter 11 Private Authority in International Trade Relations: The Case of Maritime Transport A. Claire Cutler Part 5 Conclusion Chapter 12 The Contours and Significance of Private Authority in International Affairs A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter List of Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA45012957
• ISBN:
  • 0791441199
  • 0791441202
• LCCN: 98020843
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 389 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD2755.5
  • DC21 : 338.8/8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : International business enterprises Congresses
  • LCSH : International trade Congresses
  • LCSH : International cooperation Congresses
  • LCSH : International economic relations Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA31494099