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International Politics and Economic Business
Simon Sweeney & Jonathan Fanning
’It is perhaps most useful ... to view the relationship between [trans]nationals and governments as both cooperative and competing, both supportive and conflictual. They operate in a fully dialectical relationship, locked into unified but contradictory roles and positions, neither the one nor the other partner clearly or completely able to dominate’ (Doz, cited in Dicken, 2007:233). Discuss this view with reference to the changing role of the state and the status and power of multinational corporations.
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’It is perhaps most useful ... to view the relationship between [trans]nationals and governments as both cooperative and competing, both supportive and conflictual. They operate in a fully dialectical relationship, locked into unified but contradictory roles and positions, neither the one nor the other partner clearly or completely able to dominate’ (Doz, cited in Dicken, 2007:233). Discuss this view with reference to the changing role of the state and the status and power of multinational corporations.
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1. Introduction This paper discusses the relationship between states, multinational corporations (MNCs) and intergovernmental institutions (IGOs) along the globalisation process. The increasing challenges to reduce poverty and environmental protection can only be faced with a collective approach. This is made more difficult by the fact that states act on national favour and partly on an international level within institutions. As a consequence, the necessary attention for the global challenges fade into the background. This essay attempts to establish how both global
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