Mechanisms Of Influence By Transnational Corporations On The Foreign Policy Of States

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis of transnational corporations (TNC) as specifi c subjects of international politics and intities capable of changing the foreign policies of both their states of residence and states of origin. The author offers two approaches to studying the infl uence of TNCs on the foreign policy of a state. Each approach depends directly on what part is assigned to corporations in the world’s political processes. The fi rst approach considers a TNC as the instrument of a state of origin’s foreign policy. In the second view a corporation is an independent actor to some extent. The author covers the principal means and mechanisms used by corporations when exposed to internal and external policies of developed and developing countries. Also offered are examples of the infl uence of corporations on the totality of foreign policies of national states and, as a consequence, on world politics. Particular attention is paid to media corporations and the phenomenon of media protection. In his conclusion the author addresses prospects for the application of categories of Western political economy, alternative to the concept of TNC in Russian political science studies.

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