Private Authority and International Affairs

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.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Private Authority and International AffairsA. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter Part 2 Ruling Themselves—Interfirm Organizing in the Global Arena Chapter 2 Lost in (Cyber)space: The Private Rules of Online CommerceDebora L. Spar Chapter 3 Private and Public Management of International Mineral MarketsMichael C. Webb Chapter 4 The Standards Regime for Communication and Information TechnologiesLiora Salter Chapter 5 Strategic Partnerships, Knowledge-Based Networked Oligopolies, and the StateLynn K. Mytelka and Michel Delapierre Part 3 Ruling Others—The Effects of Private International Authority Chapter 6 Bond-Rating Agencies and Coordination in the Global Political EconomyTimothy J. Sinclair Chapter 7 Multinational Corporations as Agents of Change: The Globalization of Intellectual Property RightsSusan K. Sell Chapter 8 Self-Regulation and Business Norms: Political Risk, Political ActivismVirginia Haufler Chapter 9 Embedded Private Authority: Multinational Enterprises and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Movement in EcuadorPamela L. Burke Part 4 The Evolution of Public and Private International Authority Chapter 10 Hegemony and the Private Governance of International IndustriesTony Porter Chapter 11 Private Authority in International Trade Relations: The Case of Maritime TransportA. Claire Cutler Part 5 Conclusion Chapter 12 The Contours and Significance of Private Authority in International AffairsA. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter List of Contributors Index

"The topic is both timely and significant. In my judgment the problem of private authority is connected to the erosion of state power and is central to the emerging and increasing deterritorialized world of global politics." — Richard W. Mansbach, Iowa State University"The subject matter is pioneering and of enormous significance both for international relations theory and for a practical understanding of contemporary global politics. " — Yale H. Ferguson, Rutgers University-Newark