The Forest Stewardship Council in Argentina and Brazil

Abstract

Popular accounts of globalization depict a world blanketed by networks of new actors that span the globe, beneath which borders disappear. Transnational companies, financial flows, global advocacy networks, and other entities enter local communities and introduce the values, rules, and norms of liberal, postin-dustrial, capitalist society.¹ Global private regimes are commonly represented as part of this process, outflanking the authority and control of governments, for better or for worse.