Ratifying conventions adopted by the International Labor Organization creates legal obligations to improve labor standards in the domestic economy. Why and when do states choose to ratify them? Two influential theoretical approaches lead to the expectation that states are influenced by the...

Jurisdictional approaches (JAs) have emerged over the past decade as a significant mode of sustainable commodity governance, particularly in tropical forest countries. JAs are characterized by multistakeholder initiatives with substantial government involvement, aiming to integrate...

The RSPO is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder organization, the main focus of which is standard setting and certification of sustainable palm oil production. the RSPO includes representatives from seven sectors of the palm oil industry: oil palm growers, palm oil processors or traders, consumer...

Amidst intensified competition for land available to private investors in sectors such as mining, agribusiness and forestry, disputes over land between transnational investors and local communities are emerging in many parts of the world as an increasingly visible form of transnational conflict....

This article challenges the widespread view that democratic accountability is unattainable in global politics because of the impracticality of establishing global elections. Instead, it argues that global democratic accountability can potentially be achieved by instituting non-electoral...

Amidst intensified competition for land available to private investors in mining, industrial and commercial agriculture sectors, contests between transnational companies and communities over land are emerging in many countries as a significant domain of social conflict. The power imbalances...

Many approaches to addressing labour injustices — shortfalls from minimally decent wages and working conditions — focus on how governments should orient themselves toward other states in which such phenomena take place, or to the firms that are involved with such practices. But of course the...

Throughout recent economic history, social struggle over the regulation and distribution of social costs, benefits and risks associated with capitalist economic relations have been both pervasive and continually evolving. Such contestation surrounding how capitalist forms of accumulation,...

From corporate boardrooms to the butcher's paper and whiteboards of activist workshops, the phrase ‘supply chain politics' has become increasingly commonplace. It is now routine practice for major global companies to hire specialist staff responsible for ‘supply chain compliance', which...

It is now commonplace for the language of accountability to be invoked in debates about transnational power and governance. Yet there is little agreement on whether ‘accountability' takes an analogous form between national and transnational governance domains, and thus whether transnational...