Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-220) and index.

Preface -- 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.