RODNEY BRUCE HALL is Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Iowa. THOMAS J. BIERSTEKER is Henry R. Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations and Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

• Part I. Introduction: Theorizing Private Authority: 1. The emergence of private authority in the international system Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker; 2. Private regimes and inter-firm cooperation A. Claire Cutler; Part II. Market Authority: Globalization and 'Globaloney': 3. Economic governance in an electronically networked global economy Stephen J. Kobrin; 4. Global markets, national authority and the problem of legitimation: the case of finance Louis W. Pauly; 5. The state and globalization Saskia Sassen; Part III. Moral Authority: Global Civil Society and Transnational Religious Movements: 6. 'Regulation for the rest of us?' Global civil society and the privatisation of transnational regulation Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Cathleen Fogel; 7. The global dimensions of religious terrorism Mark Juergensmeyer; Part IV. Illicit Authority: Mafias and Mercenaries: 8. Transnational organized crime and the state Phil Williams; 9. The return of the dogs of war? The privatisation of security in Africa Bernadette Methuen and Ian Taylor; Part V. Conclusions and Directions: 10. Private authority as global governance Thomas J. Biersteker and Rodney Bruce Hall.

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