Private Authority and International Affairs

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.

About the author

A. Claire Cutler is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is the coeditor (with Mark W. Zacher) of Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes. Virginia Haufler is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk, and coeditor (with Karol Soltan and Eric Uslaner) of Institutions and Social Order. Tony Porter is Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University and author of States, Markets, and Regimes in Global Finance.

Product details

• Assisted by: A Claire Cutler (Editor), A. Claire Cutler (Editor), Virginia Haufler (Editor), Tony Porter (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.1999
• EAN: 9780791441190
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4119-0
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 29 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 699 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Global Politics; Suny Global Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education