Organized Business and the New Global Order - (Advances in Political Science) by Justin Greenwood & H Jacek (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

JUSTIN GREENWOOD is Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Policy at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, where he has worked since 1992. He is the author of Representing Interests in the European Union, editor of the European Casebook on Business Alliances, and co-editor of Collective Action in the European Union: Interests and the new Politics of Associability and Organized Interests and the European Community as well as a special issue of Parliamentary Affairs on the Regulation of Lobbying in the Developed World.

HENRY JACEK is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at McMaster University. He is co-editor and co-author of Regionalism, Business Interests and Public Policy. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on such topics as organised interests, collective self-regulation and private interest government and North American integration.