ABSTRACT
CONTEMPORARY POLICYMAKERS confront decisions involvingunprecedented levels of complexity, shaped and reshaped by globalization’s kaleidoscope of interwoven political and socioeconomic factors. Once nearly the exclusive domain of governments, international relations now involves a proliferating array of organized private sector decision makers, including both business enterprises and a growing constellation of civil society groups. Interdependent international linkages, many forged through MNE commercial networks, transmit the impact of these actors’ decisions into the daily lives of diverse populations around the world whose interests, or even existence, may be largely absent from the deliberations.
