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.