How Multinational Companies Influence Multilateral Negotiations: The TRIPs and the Cartagena Protocol Cases - Couverture souple

Sarfati, Gilberto

 
9783843380706: How Multinational Companies Influence Multilateral Negotiations: The TRIPs and the Cartagena Protocol Cases
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3843380708 ISBN 13 : 9783843380706
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The main objective of this work is to identify how multinational companies (MNCs) act as negotiators in the context of international governance. The main hypothesis is that MNCs try to influence the states and their coalitions, nationally and transnationally, by exercising their structural power as well as their soft power. The defense of their corporate interests depends on the confluence of their interests with those of the states as well as the states' vulnerabilities to the corporations' activities. In the first part of the book, I present the theoretical framework related to the Complex Interdependence Theory and the three-level chessboard of Nye. I recognize the limitations of the MNCs' influence power through an extension of the Frieden-Rogowsky model. The second part of the work shows the role of MNCs in two case studies: the negotiations that led to the creation of an international regime of intellectual property in the Uruguay Round of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and the negotiations of the Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety, a complementary instrument of the Biodiversity Convention (CBD), which regulates genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The main objective of this work is to identify how multinational companies (MNCs) act as negotiators in the context of international governance. The main hypothesis is that MNCs try to influence the states and their coalitions, nationally and transnationally, by exercising their structural power as well as their soft power. The defense of their corporate interests depends on the confluence of their interests with those of the states as well as the states' vulnerabilities to the corporations' activities. In the first part of the book, I present the theoretical framework related to the Complex Interdependence Theory and the three-level chessboard of Nye. I recognize the limitations of the MNCs' influence power through an extension of the Frieden-Rogowsky model. The second part of the work shows the role of MNCs in two case studies: the negotiations that led to the creation of an international regime of intellectual property in the Uruguay Round of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and the negotiations of the Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety, a complementary instrument of the Biodiversity Convention (CBD), which regulates genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Biographie de l'auteur

The author is an Economist, Ph.D. (São Paulo University) and MSc. (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in International Relations. Post Doctoral fellow on business strategy at FGV-EAESP. He teaches international business at FGV-EAESP and Insper. He is a former VP of Webster Bank-Brazil and Director of New Business Ventures at Nexxy Capital.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3843380708
ISBN 13 
9783843380706
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Nombre de pages
68
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