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Preface -- List of tables and figures -- Exploring the role of business in global governance -- Global governance, business, and the question of power -- The approach -- The structure of the book -- Concluding thoughts -- Globalization and global governance --The setting: a globalizing world -- From globalization to global governance -- Politics in a post-cold war world: global governance -- Concluding thoughts -- Business as an actor in global governance -- Business and politics -- Analyzing power -- The three-dimensional analysis of the power of business in global governance -- Concluding thoughts -- Political mobilization -- Growing instrumental power at the national level -- Expanding instrumental power beyond the national level -- Concluding thoughts -- Structural power: old and new facets -- Channels of the structural power of business -- Codes of conduct as structural power -- Concluding thoughts -- The power of ideas -- Expanding discursive power -- The power of the discursive power of business? -- Concluding thoughts -- Interpreting the power of business in global governance -- The role of business in global governance -- Implications for politics -- Implications for research -- Outlook -- List of abbreviations -- Bibliography

Analyses of globalization and global governance frequently identify business actors, in particular TNCs, as the major beneficiaries of assoviated changes in the political capacities of state and non-state actors. This book examines in a systematic, comprehensive and theoretically grounded manner to what extent and in which aspects the political power of business really has risen. It thus analyses developments in business' lobbying, agenda- and rule-setting, and political communication activities at the national and supranational levels from a three-dimensional perspective on power. On that basis, Understanding Business Power in Global Governance delineates qualitative and quantitative changes business' political activities and links them to a differentiated view of developments in the instrumental, structural, and discursive power of business in the globalized world.

The European Union's ambition on environmental issues proves to be highly uneven. While it has agreed on stringent binding sustainability objectives in its reforms of the Common Fisheries Policy in 2013, it failed to reach such agreement on its 2030 climate change objectives at almost the same time. How can we make sense of this uneven performance of the European Union (EU) in environmental policy? The present article argues that integrating the multiple streams approach (MSA) with a focus on business power allows a better understanding of the divergence in the EU's sustainability ambitions across policy fields. Based on this framework, it suggests that Commissioners can be highly influential policy entrepreneurs in the European governance process. Employing a content analysis of relevant documents from the two policy processes as well as interviews with representatives from political as well as non-state actors, the article depicts the suggested dynamics and deduces corresponding lessons for science and politics.

"Der Aufsatz untersucht Politikdiffusion als Quelle der internationalen Konvergenz von Politiken. Wissenschaftler haben Diffusionsprozesse in den verschiedensten Politikfeldern aufgezeigt und dabei eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Determinanten der Diffusion von Politiken bestimmt. Dieser Aufsatz hat zum Ziel, 'politikfeldübergreifende' Determinanten von Diffusion zu identifizieren. Er greift dabei neben den Erkenntnissen aus der Diffusionsforschung auf Grundlagen der Politiktransfer-Forschung zurück. Auf der Basis eines auf diesen Ansätzen aufbauenden theoretischen Rahmens entwickelt und prüft der Beitrag die Rolle von kognitiven Relevanzfiltern, Internationalen Organisationen und nicht-staatlichen Akteuren in der Förderung von Diffusionsprozessen am Beispiel von drei politischen Reformen aus der Wirtschafts-, Gender- und Umweltpolitik." (Autorenreferat)

International Relations (IR) urgently needs theoretical development that takes into the account the power of non-state actors, in particular business. The present paper aims to prepare the ground for such theoretical development by analysing the political power of business along three dimensions: its instrumental, structural, and discursive power. The paper discusses the extent to which business's political power has grown in each of the dimensions. While the analysis indicates that the political power of business in general and corporate actors in particular has increased in certain areas, it also highlights limits and challenges to this power. Specifically, the paper argues that the `commanding heights' to which business allegedly has climbed are built on shaky ground. This, in turn, implies the need for any IR theory that takes non-state actors into account to develop and include a new concept of vulnerability of political power.

International relations urgently needs theoretical development that takes into the account the power of non-state actors, in particular business. The present paper aims to prepare the ground for such theoretical development by analysing the political power of business along three dimensions: its instrumental, structural, and discursive power. The paper discusses the extent to which business's political power has grown in each of the dimensions. While the analysis indicates that the political power of business in general and corporate actors in particular has increased in certain areas, it also highlights limits and challenges to this power. Specifically, the paper argues that the `commanding heights' to which business allegedly has climbed are built on shaky ground. This, in turn, implies the need for any IR theory that takes non-state actors into account to develop and include a new concept of vulnerability of political power.