Business and Global Governance

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Front Cover; Business and Global Governance; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of Contributors; Preface; 1. Introducing business and global governance: Morten Ougaard; Introduction; Beginnings; Understanding international business; Policy regimes for international business; Business in global governance; The volume; Note; References; Part I: Business as master of global governance; 2.Direct and indirect influence at the world intellectual property organization: Christopher May; Business power from a critical perspective; Corporations and intellectual property

The global governance of intellectual property: between the WTO and the WIPONorms in global governance: making property in knowledge normal; Critical IPE, the (re)production of norms and power in global governance; Notes; References; 3. Practices (re)producing orders: understanding the role of business inglobal security governance: Anna Leander; Blinders obscuring business's part in global security governance; Breaking with formalism: global governance as practice; Breaking with atomism: contextualizing practices; The rise (and possible decline) of business in global governance; Conclusion

NotesReferences; 4. Unthinking the GATSA: a radical political economy critique of private transnational governance: A. Claire Cutler; The GATS and subjectivity in transnational governance; Law and the modern corporate subject; Imperfect subjects and unthinking the GATS; Notes; References; Part II: Business as subject to global governance; 5. Business and global climategovernance: a neo-pluralist perspective Robert Falkner; Introduction; The neo-pluralist perspective on business in global governance; Business and the global politics of climate change; Conclusions; References

6.Governing corruption through the global corporation: Hans Krause HansenIntroduction; Corruption governance; Corruption governance as business regulation; Corruption governance as the management of risk, performance and transparency; Conclusions and perspectives; Note; References; 7. Transnational governance networks in the regulation of finance: the making of global regulation and supervision standards in the banking industry: Eleni Tsingou; Financial sector regulation and supervision: trends, policies and interests

Explaining financial governance: the role of transnational governance networksBasel II - or how private interests become public policy; Business and the governance of finance; Implications for global governance: building legitimacy in a time of crisis?; Conclusions; Notes; References; 8. Non-triad multinationals and global governance: still a North-South conflict?: Andreas Nölke and Heather Taylor; Introduction; Conventional theoretical approaches to (NT)MNCs; A "modified varieties of capitalism" explanation for the rise of NTMNCs

Implications for global governance: charting future conflict and cooperation potential

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