Includes bibliographical references and index.

Private organizations and their contribution to problem-solving in the global arena / Karsten Ronit and Volker Schneider -- Representation of private organizations in the global diplomacy of economic policy-making / Peter Willetts -- Embedding global financial markets : securitization and the emerging web of governance / Philip G. Cerny -- The good, the had or the ugly? Practices of global self-regulation among dyestuffs producers / Karsten Ronit -- The Internet Society and its struggle for recognition and influence / Raymund Werle and Volker Leib -- Why do community-based AIDS organizations co-ordinate at the global level? / Patrick Kenis -- The global social capital of human rights movements : a case study on Amnesty International / Volker Schneider -- The international women's movement as a private political actor between accommodation and change / Bob Reinalda -- The policy roles of private research institutes in global politics / Diane Stone.

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