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United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations

The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC, or the Centre) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility, and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened with globalization. This book recounts the UNCTC experience and its lessons for international organizations.

This book is not only an insider perspective by two former staff but also a collective memoir of the UNCTC as an international organization that attempted with varying success to defuse the clash between corporates and states that erupted in the turbulent 1970s. This personal account of the UNCTC is a mixture of history, analysis, reflections, and critical commentaries, told in different voices that penetrate the bland persona of international civil service. In this retelling, the authors seek to address misconceptions amongst the more general literature and to seek to provide accounts of both its positive and negative features.

The UNCTC experience recounted in this book holds valuable lessons for international organization and will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

Khalil Hamdani was chief of the UNCTC executive office and later the director of the programme.

Lorraine Ruffing worked for five different United Nations agencies over the last 22 years

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United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations

Corporate conduct and the public interest

Khalil Hamdani and Lorraine Ruffing

With reflections and critical commentary from colleagues, delegates, and participants

First published 2015

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2015 Selection and editorial matter Khalil Hamdani and Lorraine Ruffing; contributors their contributions.

The right of Khalil Hamdani and Lorraine Ruffing to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

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ISBN: 9780415733007 (hbk)

ISBN: 9781315723549 (ebk)

Contents

SOTIRIOS MOUSOURIS

PETER HANSEN

PERSEPHONE ECONOMOU

ZBIGNIEW ZIMNY

SAMUEL K. B. ASANTE

KARL P. SAUVANT

KARI TAPIOLA

MIGUEL MARN-BOSCH

GUTTORM VIK

ROBIN JARVIS, RICHARD MARTIN AND PETERWALTON

NANCY KAMP-ROELANDS

CHRISTIANE STEPANEK-ALLEN

HARRIS GLECKMAN

RORY ALLAN

SUSAN BRANDWAYN

MAURICE ODLE

JULIAN GOMEZ

ANTOINE BASILE

KLAUS SAHLGREN

Rory Allan (New Zealand) was the UNCTC senior financial adviser on technical assistance (19901994) and principal adviser (20022008). He has a Masters degree in economics from the Australian National University. He has advised governments on investment policies. He was a corporate finance executive with the Rothschild investment bank and a venture capital investor. He is now an independent consultant.

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