Organized Business and the New Global Order

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.

• Foreword: P.Schmitter List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction; H.Jacek From Ships Passing in the Night to a Dialogue of the Deaf: the Contribution of International Relations Theory to Understanding Organized Business; G.R.D.Underhill The Role of Organized Business in the Formulation and Implementation of Regional Trade Agreements in North America; H.Jacek Business Associations, Regional Integration and Systemic Shocks: The Case of the ABM in Mexico; D.R.Wood Organized Business and the European Union; J.Greenwood Asia-Pacific Business Activity and Regional Institution-building; N.Gallant & R.Stubbs Responses of Brazilian and Argentinean Business to the New Regional Integration Experience in Latin America: The Building of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur); M.D.de Landa & M.C.Sajem Business Interest Groups and the State in USSR and Russia: Change of the Models; S.Peregudov Antipodean Exceptionalism?: Australian Farmers and World Trade Reform; R.Gerritsen Multi-tiered Systems and the Organization of Business Interests; W.D.Coleman & É.Montpetit Global Order and Local Collective Action: The Case of Milan Business Interest Associations; L.Lanzalaco & E.Gualmini Leading and Following - Private and Public Organizations in the Evolution of Global Shipping; K.Ronit International Standardization, Corporate Strategy, and Regional Markets; M.Egan Global Economic Governance by Private Actors: The International Chamber of Commerce; V.Schneider Conclusion; J.Greenwood Bibliography Index