Organized Business and the New Global Order

WILLIAM COLEMAN Professor of Political Science, McMaster University MICHELLE EGAN Assistant Professor, School of International Service NICOLE GALLANT Research Intern, Asia Pacific Foundation, Canada ROLF GERRITSEN Professor of Local Government and Applied Policy, University of Canberra ELISABETTA GUALMINI Doctoral Researcher in Political Science, University of Bologna MARTHA DIAZ DE LANDA Director, Research of Political Analysis Institute, Universidad Catolica de Cordoba LUCA LANZALACO Associate Professor of Public Administration, Bocconi University, Milan ERIC MONTPETIT Ph. D Candidate in Political Science, McMaster University SERGEI PEREGUDOV Professor of Political Science, Russian Academy of Sciences KARSTEN RONIT Lecturer, University of Konstanz MARIA CAROLA SAJEM Doctoral student, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva VOLKER SCHNEIDER Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz RICHARD STUBBS Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University GEOFFREY UNDERHILL Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick DUNCAN WOOD Assistant Professor, International Relations, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) Mexico City

The editors have assembled an international team of expert scholars together to describe and analyze the role of organized business in creating, and responding to, the regionalization and internationalization of markets and politics.The editors have assembled an international team of expert scholars together to describe and analyze the role of organized business in creating, and responding to, the regionalization and internationalization of markets and politics. Chapters focus on theoretical issues, discrete regions drawn from the major trading regimes around the globe, and sectors, and together address a number of important issues: First, to what extent does organised business push the deepening and widening of regional and global trading regimes? Second, does the development of these multi-level governance regimes in turn pull organised business into more comprehensive levels of organisation and public policy coordination? The collection concludes that globalization and the 'new regionalism' cannot be understood without recognising the key role of business organizations. This book is unique because no other volume details the critical relationship between organized business and globalization/new regionalism.