THE POLITICAL POWER OF GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
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- Author: JOHN MIKLER
- ISBN: 9780745698465
- Availability: In Stock
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We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests
seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states,
civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their
institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are
often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization.
In this book, John Mikler re-casts global
corporations as political actors with complex identities and strategies.
Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively profit-driven
entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or modify the agendas of
states but to govern in their own right. He also explains why we need to
re-territorialize global corporations as political actors that reflect and
project the political power of the states and regions from which they hail.
We know the global corporations' names, we know
where they are headquartered, and we know where they invest and operate.
Economic processes are increasingly produced by the control they possess, the
relationships they have, the leverage they employ, the strategic decisions they
make, and the discourses they create to enhance acceptance of their interests.
This book represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making
assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.