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...

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...

This case study focuses on the role of transnational non-judicial grievance mechanisms in remedying human rights grievances of workers on tea plantations in India who are linked to transnational supply chains.Business activity: this research spans numerous individual business enterprises in the...

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...

This case study focuses on transnational business activity in the form of investment in a forest conservation project developed by private sector investors in partnership with the NGO fauna & flora international — under the international REDD framework. This case study differs somewhat from...

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....

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...