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Contributions from
the Column
Media
The world at the abyss
Achieving food and nutrition security
Financial stability and growth in emerging economies
Corporations in global politics
Water – a human right?
11/2005 |
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Business’ ambivalent role in global politics
Tanja Brühl et al. (Eds.):
Unternehmen in der Weltpolitik.
Politiknetzwerke, Unternehmensregeln und die Zukunft des Multilateralismus (Corporations in global policy. Policy networks, corporate rules and the future of multilateralism).
Bonn, Dietz Verlag 2004, 285 pp.,
¤ 12.70, ISBN 3-8012-0348-4
The book compares the non-binding notion of corporate social responsibility with the social obligations of ownership fixed in the German constitution. The “Global Policy” study group views with great scepticism partnerships between politics and business (Global Compact, et cetera) which have emerged in the past few years. After all, transnational corporations have time and again violated human rights, disregarded core labour standards, destroyed the environment or fostered corruption. Following its previous book on the “privatisation of world politics” of 2001, the study group now focusses on the issue of whether the private sector can operate globally without a public framework obliging it to conform to a fair and democratic global system. The answer is overwhelmingly negative. (orb)
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