Book Launch

Book launch and reception on 8 October 2010Business and Global GovernanceEdited by Morten Ougaard and Anna Leander

Roundtable Discussion about Business in Global Governance

Chaired by:

Eleni Tsingou (Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick)

Statements by:

· Jens Ladefoged Mortensen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Inst. of Political Science)

· Stefano Ponte (Senior

Researcher, Danish Institute of International Studies)

· Leonard Seabrooke (Professor CBS)

Over the past two decades, the role of business in global governance has become increasingly topical. Transnational business associations are progressively more visible in international policy debates and in intergovernmental institutions, and there is a heightened attention given to global policy-making in national and international business communities.

This text examines and explains the multiple modes of engagement between business and global governance; it presents a variety of theoretical approaches which can be used to analyse them, along with empirical illustrations. Featuring a range of leading US and European scholars, it is divided into three parts that summarize different modes of engagement. Each section is illustrated by two or three studies that represent a distinct theoretical take on the issue with empirical illustrations.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Business Studies, International Relations, International Politics and International Political Economy, as well as for practitioners – in the public and private sector.

Morten Ougaard and Anna Leander are both professors at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.