This volume explores a variety of forms of transnational private governance where non-state actors cooperate across borders to establish rules and standards accepted as legitimate by other agents. Transnational private governance is a core feature of the devolution of power that we observe in the global realm and that is bringing about new forms of authority. Transnational Private Governance provides theoretically and empirically informed insights into the interactions between states and non-state actors including domains beyond intergovernmental organizations, conventional non-governmental organizations, and multinational enterprises, covering a wide range of arrangements, from highly formal devolutions of power to lax and informal platforms of interaction between private actors. Contributing to the latest generation of globalization studies, the authors consider the relationship between states and markets as closely integrated and seek to broaden the scope of enquiry by including new patterns and agents of change on a transnational basis. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of political science, international political economy, economics, business studies, globalisation and law.
Author(s): Jean-Christophe
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 304
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 10
Copyright......Page 11
Contents......Page 12
Illustrations......Page 15
Contributors......Page 16
Series editor’s preface......Page 20
Preface......Page 22
Abbreviations......Page 24
1 Introduction: Beyond the fragmented debate on transnational private governance......Page 28
Part I (Self-)regulation in the financial sector......Page 54
2 Keeping competitors out: Industry structure and transnational private governance in global finance......Page 56
3 Transnational expert-driven standardisation: Accountancy governance from a professional point of view......Page 71
4 Transnational private governance and the Basel process: Banking regulation and supervision, private interests and Basel II......Page 85
Part II Transnational corporations facing labour, ecological, and consumers’ concerns......Page 96
5 The power of TNCs in transnational environmental private governance......Page 98
6 Where to find a ‘demos’ for controlling global risk regulators?: From private to public regulation and back......Page 111
7 The potential and limits of governance by private codes of conduct......Page 125
8 The private regulation of labour standards: The case of the apparel and footwear industries......Page 142
Part III Prospects and limits of avant-garde cases: The private regulation of the cyberspace......Page 154
9 Transnational private governance of the Internet: The roles of business......Page 156
10 Who governs the Internet?: The emerging regime of e-commerce......Page 169
11 Limitations to transnational private governance of the Internet: The dot eu top-level domain......Page 183
Part IV Regional integration as a driving force towards transnational private governance......Page 196
12 Public–private partnerships and transnational governance in the European Union: The case of the Lisbon Strategy......Page 198
13 Transnational private governance in the EU: When social partners bargain beyond borders......Page 212
14 Self-regulation and public regulation: Financial services and the out-of-court complaints bodies......Page 223
15 Dispute resolution in international trade and investment law: Privatisation of the public?......Page 236
Part V Conclusions......Page 250
16 Conclusion: The limits of transnational private governance......Page 252
Bibliography......Page 270
Index......Page 295
