Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of acronyms -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: globalisation and non-state actors -- Theoretical considerations: the changing nature of authority relations -- Who does what? Collective action and the changing nature of authority -- Grassroots empowerment: states, non-state actors and global policy formulation -- Multinational companies and the establishment of international rules -- Globalisation and policy convergence: the case of direct investment rules -- State authority and investment security: non-state actors and the negotiation of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment at the OECD -- Structures, agents and institutions: private corporate power and the globalisation of intellectual property rights -- Business strategy and evolving rules in the Single European Market -- Private sector international regimes -- Corporate political action in the global polity: national and transnational strategies in the climate change negotiations -- Multinational companies and the international restructuring of production -- Alliance capitalism as industrial order: exploring new forms of interfirm competition in the globalising economy -- How global is Ford Motor Company's global strategy? -- Foreign capital, host-country-firm mandates and the terms of globalisation -- Globalisation and inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations -- Private authority, scholarly legitimacy and political credibility: think tanks and informal diplomacy -- International trade rules and states: enhanced authority for the WTO? -- The World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the environmental social movement -- 'In the foothills': relations between the IMF and civil society.

Transnational environmental groups, media, science and public sentiment(s) in domestic policy-making on climate change -- Index.

Traditionally in International Relations, power and authority were considered to rest with states. But recently, in the light of changes associated with globalisation, this has come under scrutiny both empirically and theoretically. This book analyses the continuing but changing role of states in the international arena, and their relationships with a wide range of non-state actors, which possess increasingly salient capabilities to structure global politics and economics.

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