ABSTRACT
To recognize that business can have a significant role in global governance of security and military matters seems rather difficult. A key reason is the way global governance is understood. Global governance often boils down to what is done by a set of public institutions at the international level. But what if the role of business in shaping global politics was not primarily about how it relates to public institutions? What if business mattered in its own right; if it was doing global governance? And what if this doing was altering the way activities in specific areas were ordered; possibly without altering formal public arrangements or influencing state behavior? In short, what if business practices produced global governance?
