Cover -- Private Organizations in Global Politics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Private organizations and their contribution to problem-solving in the global arena -- 2 Representation of private organizations in the global diplomacy of economic policy-making -- 3 Embedding global financial markets: Securitization and the emerging web of governance -- 4 The good, the bad or the ugly?: Practices of global self-regulation among dyestuffs producers -- 5 The Internet Society and its struggle for recognition and influence -- 6 Why do community-based AIDS organizations co-ordinate at the global level? -- 7 The global social capital of human rights movements: A case study on Amnesty International -- 8 The international women's movement as a private political actor between accommodation and change -- 9 The policy roles of private research institutes in global politics -- Index.