Transnational Private Governance and its Limits

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.

1. Introduction Part 1: (Self-)Regulation in the Financial Sector 2. Keeping Competitors Out 3. Transnational Expert-Driven Standardisation 4. Transnational Private Governance and the Basel Process Part 2: Transnational Corporations Facing Labour, Ecological, and Consumers' Concerns 5. The Power of TNCs in Transnational Environmental Private Governance 6. Where to Find a 'Demos' for Controlling Global Risk Regulators? 7. The Potential and Limits of Governance by Private Codes of Conduct 8. The Private Regulation of Labour Standards Part 3: Prospects and Limits of Avant-Garde Cases: The Private Regulation of the Cyberspace 9. Transnational Private Governance of the Internet 10. Who Governs the Internet? 11. Limitations to Transnational Private Governance of the Internet Part 4: Regional Integration as a Driving Force towards Transnational Private Governance 12. Public-Private Partnerships and Transnational Governance in the European Union 13. Transnational Private Governance in the EU 14. Self-Regulation and Public Regulation 15. Dispute Resolution in International Trade and Investment Law 16. Conclusion: The Limits of Transnational Private Governance