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This paper presents a preliminary inquiry into the results of two years of collaborative research and data collection. Since 1998, Derek Darves has researched the political and economic consequences of growing international trade between developing and developed countries, with particular emphasis on the processes of resource mobilization and collective action employed by large U.S. multinational firms to secure business favorable legal frameworks governing international trade. I share Mr. Dreiling's concerns with the apparent exclusiveness of trade governing bodies such as the WTO. The consequences of such closed systems are perhaps most prominently seen in the present lack of meaningful labor and environmental protections within the major multinational trade governing bodies. The present paper explores several domestic organizations, both governmental and private, utilized by corporations to sustain and augment the disproportionate power wielded by large multinational firms in the U.S. trade policy formation process.

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Depictions of globalization commonly recite a story of a market unleashed, bringing Big Macs and iPhones to all corners of the world. Human society appears as a passive observer to a busy revolution of an invisible global market, paradoxically unfolding by its own energy. Sometimes, this market is thought to be unleashed by politicians working on the surface of an autonomous state. This book rejects both perspectives and provides an analytically rich alternative to conventional approaches to globalization. By the 1980s, an enduring corporate coalition advanced in nearly synonymous terms free trade, tax cuts, and deregulation. Highly networked corporate leaders and state officials worked in concert to produce the trade policy framework for neoliberal globalization. Marshalling original network data and a historical narrative, this book shows that the globalizing corporate titans of the late 1960s aligned with economic conservatives to set into motion this vision of a global free market.