Private authority and international affairs / A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter -- Lost in (cyber …)space: the private rules of online commerce / Debora L. Spar -- Private and public management of international mineral markets …: the globalization of intellectual property rights / Susan K. Sell -- Self-regulation and business norms: political risk …

We live in a world increasingly shaped by the forces of globalization or interdependence as all the world's countries …"We live in a world increasingly shaped by the forces of globalization or interdependence as all the world's countries … international conflicts and reduces the threat or use of violence, known as geopolitics, in resolving them. In those nonviolent …

Before the current international economic crisis, Asian policymakers deferred to their Western counterparts. The … world will soon come to grief if both the US and Europe fail to make fundamental readjustments. An America and EU that takes … serious economic measures will cause the rest of the world pain, as Western consumption and imports diminish. But there is no …