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International trade --- Risk (Insurance) --- History. --- Insurance --- History --- Risk
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Business ethics --- Corporations --- Data protection --- Environmental law --- Foreign trade regulation --- Globalization --- International business enterprises --- International business enterprises --- International business enterprises --- Labor laws and legislation --- Social responsibility of business --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Law and legislation --- Environmental aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects
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As businesses search increasingly for opportunities beyond their national borders, they face the risk that political change in other countries will jeopardize their efforts. Anything from minor shifts in regulations to sudden revolutions can threaten business investment, trade, and credit. Virginia Haufler shows that a crucial factor in the expansion of global markets has been the private sector's creation of a sophisticated insurance industry to redistribute the risks entailed in foreign commerce, a privately constructed safety net for international transactions. Haufler believes that the network of relationships and institutions established by the insurers constituted a privately led regime for the management of international risk. She analyzes political risks insurance during three periods of substantial uncertainty: the era from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War I, when British global power began to wane; the interwar years, leading up to the collapse of world trade and a second world war; and the 'debt crisis' decade of the 1980s. Public and private involvement in supplying insurance against international risks has varied depending on demand, the availability of resources, and the norms of what can be insured. As the scale and complexity of risks have expanded, Haufler suggests, responsibility has shifted from commercial insurers first to the state and now to multilateral institutions.
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"Governments today are too often unwilling to intervene in global commerce, and international organizations are too often unable to govern effectively. In their place, firms increasingly cooperate internationally to establish the rules and standards of behavior for themselves and for others, taking on the mantle of authority to govern specific issue areas. Are they stepping into the breach to supply needed collective goods? Or are they organizing themselves in order to prevent governments from interfering in their business? This book explores the meaning of this private international authority, both for theory and policy, through case studies of specific industries, associations, and issue areas in both contemporary and historical perspective."--Jacket.
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Explores in detail the degree to which private sector firms are beginning to replace governments in "governing" some areas of international relations.
International business enterprises --- International trade --- International cooperation --- International economic relations --- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS --- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES --- INTERNATIONAL TRADE --- INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION --- INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS --- BUSINESS AND POLITICS --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- International Relations --- International Business Enterprises --- International Trade --- International Cooperation --- International Economic Relations --- Business And Politics --- Political Science --- Business & Economics --- International relations --- Business and politics --- Political science --- Business & economics
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