Esta dissertação de mestrado trata do fenômeno da regulação público-privada e da mudança do clima, com ênfase na influência que os padrões de sustentabilidade relativos à emissão de Gases de Efeito Estufa - GEEs, pode ter sobre este debate. Para tanto, em primeiro lugar, buscou-se aprofundar a compreensão sobre a ascensão dos atores não estatais como agentes fundamentais do processo de regulação em arenas nacionais e transnacionais. Abordagens do Direito, da Economia, da Ciência Política e das Relações Internacionais tratam o fenômeno da regulação privada sob óticas distintas, que ora dialogam entre si, ora não. De onde advém a legitimidade e a autoridade da regulação privada? Qual o seu alcance? Diversas perguntar nascem no seio deste debate, que culmina no conceito de padrões de sustentabilidade. Os padrões de sustentabilidade são o objeto desta pesquisa, que também se debruça sobre a ampla discussão do papel que estes padrões exercem, ou podem exercer no futuro, sobre o comércio internacional. Não há consenso na literatura sobre esse ponto, a despeito de uma prevalência da visão clássica da Economia e do Direito, de que este tipo de regulação é potencialmente danoso à estrutura de governança global estabelecida, a saber, a Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC). Finalmente, o estudo aprofunda as análises sobre o papel dos padrões de sustentabilidade relativos à mudança do clima, caracterizados, especificamente, por possuírem como marca principal a contabilidade da pegada de carbono de produtos, serviços e processos. As reflexões propostas abarcam tanto a capacidade destes \'padrões de sustentabilidade de carbono\' de mitigar emissões de GEEs, quanto o seu eventual impacto sobre o comércio internacional. As conclusões abrem a discussão para uma agenda futura de pesquisa sobre o tema. / This master\'s thesis deals with the phenomenon of public-private regulation and climate change, with emphasis on the influence that the private standards regarding the emission of Greenhouse Gases, can have on this debate. Firstly, we sought to deepen our understanding of the rise of non-state actors as fundamental agents of the regulation process in national and transnational arenas. Approaches from the law, economics, political science, and international relations fields deal with the phenomenon of private regulation under different optics, which may or may not be interconnected. Where does the legitimacy and authority of private regulation come from? What is its scope? Several questions are born within this debate, culminating in the concept of private standards. Private standards are the object of this research, which also deals with the broad discussion of the role that these standards play, or may have in the future, over international trade. There is no consensus in the literature on this point, despite a prevalence of the classical view from economics and law that this type of regulation is potentially damaging to the established global governance structure, namely the World Trade Organization (WTO). Finally, the study further analyzes the role of private standards related to climate change, characterized for accounting the carbon footprint of products, services and processes. The proposed reflections cover both the ability of these \'private carbon standards\' to mitigate GHG emissions and their impact on international trade. The conclusions open the discussion for a future research agenda on the topic.

Esta dissertação de mestrado trata do fenômeno da regulação público-privada e da mudança do clima, com ênfase na influência que os padrões de sustentabilidade relativos à emissão de Gases de Efeito Estufa - GEEs, pode ter sobre este debate. Para tanto, em primeiro lugar, buscou-se aprofundar a compreensão sobre a ascensão dos atores não estatais como agentes fundamentais do processo de regulação em arenas nacionais e transnacionais. Abordagens do Direito, da Economia, da Ciência Política e das Relações Internacionais tratam o fenômeno da regulação privada sob óticas distintas, que ora dialogam entre si, ora não. De onde advém a legitimidade e a autoridade da regulação privada? Qual o seu alcance? Diversas perguntar nascem no seio deste debate, que culmina no conceito de padrões de sustentabilidade. Os padrões de sustentabilidade são o objeto desta pesquisa, que também se debruça sobre a ampla discussão do papel que estes padrões exercem, ou podem exercer no futuro, sobre o comércio internacional. Não há consenso na literatura sobre esse ponto, a despeito de uma prevalência da visão clássica da Economia e do Direito, de que este tipo de regulação é potencialmente danoso à estrutura de governança global estabelecida, a saber, a Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC). Finalmente, o estudo aprofunda as análises sobre o papel dos padrões de sustentabilidade relativos à mudança do clima, caracterizados, especificamente, por possuírem como marca principal a contabilidade da pegada de carbono de produtos, serviços e processos. As reflexões propostas abarcam tanto a capacidade destes \'padrões de sustentabilidade de carbono\' de mitigar emissões de GEEs, quanto o seu eventual impacto sobre o comércio internacional. As conclusões abrem a discussão para uma agenda futura de pesquisa sobre o tema. / This master\'s thesis deals with the phenomenon of public-private regulation and climate change, with emphasis on the influence that the private standards regarding the emission of Greenhouse Gases, can have on this debate. Firstly, we sought to deepen our understanding of the rise of non-state actors as fundamental agents of the regulation process in national and transnational arenas. Approaches from the law, economics, political science, and international relations fields deal with the phenomenon of private regulation under different optics, which may or may not be interconnected. Where does the legitimacy and authority of private regulation come from? What is its scope? Several questions are born within this debate, culminating in the concept of private standards. Private standards are the object of this research, which also deals with the broad discussion of the role that these standards play, or may have in the future, over international trade. There is no consensus in the literature on this point, despite a prevalence of the classical view from economics and law that this type of regulation is potentially damaging to the established global governance structure, namely the World Trade Organization (WTO). Finally, the study further analyzes the role of private standards related to climate change, characterized for accounting the carbon footprint of products, services and processes. The proposed reflections cover both the ability of these \'private carbon standards\' to mitigate GHG emissions and their impact on international trade. The conclusions open the discussion for a future research agenda on the topic.

The use of Private Military Companies (PMCs) has become an increasingly common feature of contemporary armed conflict. Because of their autonomous contractual status, PMCs have presented governments with problems of accountability on several levels, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law (IHL) standards. This thesis argues that PMCs should be considered to be non-state actors (NSAs), subject to international law from both an International Relations Theory and a Legal Theory perspective. This conclusion is linked to the issue of whether individual PMC employees can be treated as legitimate combatants according to IHL. State practice has not led to a clear understanding of the definition of combatant, a problem which has been compounded by a lack of government policy on the use of PMCs. Using Canadian experience as a case study, the thesis concludes that IHL suggests two options for regularizing the status of PMCs which would both strengthen accountability and uphold the rule of law.

The use of Private Military Companies (PMCs) has become an increasingly common feature of contemporary armed conflict. Because of their autonomous contractual status, PMCs have presented governments with problems of accountability on several levels, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law (IHL) standards. This thesis argues that PMCs should be considered to be non-state actors (NSAs), subject to international law from both an International Relations Theory and a Legal Theory perspective. This conclusion is linked to the issue of whether individual PMC employees can be treated as legitimate combatants according to IHL. State practice has not led to a clear understanding of the definition of combatant, a problem which has been compounded by a lack of government policy on the use of PMCs. Using Canadian experience as a case study, the thesis concludes that IHL suggests two options for regularizing the status of PMCs which would both strengthen accountability and uphold the rule of law.

The profound and observable changes in the world, including globalization, in the last decades have weakened the state power vis-&agrave / -vis non-state actors. This process naturally, has marked down the state capacity to protect and promote internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms. In this context, TNCs, the principle actors of economic globalization, not only threaten the enjoyment of human rights, but also challenge to the state-centric human rights understanding. This thesis claims that the state-centric paradigm has got difficulties to locate non-state actors that violate human rights. While this study proceeds from the premise that the state is the primary responsible actor, it cannot certainly be considered as the sole responsible actor for human rights. Likewise, the thesis suggests that a new international mechanism that holds also non-state actors, particularly TNCs, responsible for human rights needs to be established.

Non-state actors, such as international environmental organisations, business associations and indigenous peoples organisations, increasingly take on governance functions that can influence the delivery of global public goods. This thesis examines the roles of these actors in the field of global climate change governance. Specifically, the thesis examines why and how non-state actors are involved in global climate change governance, the governance activities that they may perform and are perceived to perform, and their views on climate change solutions. The thesis also discusses the implications of their roles for how authority is shared between states and non-state actors in global climate change governance. The research questions are addressed by triangulating several empirical methods. The results show that the roles of non-state actors are continuously evolving and depend on the changing nature of relations between state and non-state actors as well as efforts by non-state actors to expand their policy space by justifying and seeking recognition for their participation. Moreover, the findings point to the importance of differentiating between groups of non-state actors, as they represent diverse interests and have different comparative advantages across governance activities. Which non-state actors participate and to what extent therefore has implications for the effects of their involvement in global climate change governance. On the basis of a systematic assessment of a set of non-state actors, this thesis concludes that the key role-categories of non-state actors in global climate change governance are broadly: shapers of information and ideas, brokers of knowledge, norms and initiatives, and doers of implementing policies and influencing behaviours. Different non-state actors carry out activities within these role-categories to different extents. In addition to the empirical mapping of the roles of non-state actors in global climate change governance, this thesis contributes to two strands in the literature: one theoretical focusing on the authority and legitimacy of non-state actors in global environmental governance, and the other methodological, offering a toolbox that combines survey data with qualitative methods. / Icke-statliga aktörer, exempelvis internationella miljöorganisationer, näringslivsorganisationer och ursprungsbefolkningsorganisationer, fyller alltmer framträdande funktioner i den globala klimatstyrningen. Dessa organisationer kan därmed påverka utformningen av globala kollektiva nyttigheter. Denna avhandling undersöker dessa aktörers roller inom den globala klimatstyrningen. Avhandlingen utforskar varför och på vilket sätt icke-statliga aktörer deltar i den globala klimatstyrningen, uppfattningar om vilka styraktiviteter de utför, och ifall de bidrar till en mer pluralistisk syn på klimatproblematikens lösningar. I avhandlingen diskuteras vilka konsekvenser de icke-statliga aktörernas roller har för hur auktoritet delas mellan stater och icke-statliga aktörer i den globala klimatpolitiken. Forskningsfrågorna behandlas genom att triangulera flera empiriska metoder. Resultaten från dessa undersökningar visar att de icke-statliga aktörernas roller utvecklas kontinuerligt och att dynamiken dels beror på den skiftande relationen mellan statliga och icke-statliga aktörer, dels på de icke-statliga aktörernas egna ansträngningar att öka sitt politiska handlingsutrymme och få erkännande för sitt deltagande. Dessutom pekar resultaten på vikten av att skilja mellan olika grupper av icke-statliga aktörer, eftersom de representerar skilda intressen och har komparativa fördelar i olika styraktiviteter. En konsekvens av detta är att det spelar roll vilka grupper av icke-statliga aktörer som ges tillträde till den internationella klimatdiplomatin. Baserat på en systematisk  bedömning av vad några av de icke-statliga aktörerna anses göra, dras slutsatsen att de viktigaste rollkategorierna som icke-statliga aktörer har är: formare av information och idéer, mäklare av kunskap, normer och initiativ, och görare genom att bidra till implementering och påverka beteenden, men att olika icke-statliga aktörer utför dessa roller i olika utsträckning. Utöver den empiriska kartläggningen av icke-statliga aktörers roller i den globala klimatstyrningen, bidrar avhandlingen dels till den teoretiska litteraturen kring icke-statliga aktörers auktoritet och legitimitet inom den globala miljöstyrningen, dels metodologiskt genom att utveckla analysverktyg som kombinerar enkätdata med kvalitativa metoder.

Why has the United States, given its status as the sole remaining superpower following its Cold War victory, been unable to translate its preponderance of power into the outcomes it desires? The system established by the United States over the course of the Cold War does not effectively translate its power into influence in the post-Cold War world. In fact, the way US-Soviet competition shaped global affairs created systemic problems, weak and failing states, terrorism, autocracy and human rights abuse, that cannot be solved by the mechanisms of influence the US relied upon to win the Cold War. However, precisely these issues now dominate the American foreign policy agenda as its strategic objective shifted from defeating communism to maintaining the stability of the liberal world order that resulted from communism’s defeat. The United States, reliant on Cold War era mechanisms of influence, lacks the tools to accomplish these new objectives because these mechanisms were designed to exploit or accept the problems of statehood that now plague the liberal world order. Therefore, for the United States to make effective use of its abundance of power, it must either change its tools or its objectives.

The use of Private Military Companies (PMCs) has become an increasingly common feature of contemporary armed conflict. Because of their autonomous contractual status, PMCs have presented governments with problems of accountability on several levels, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law (IHL) standards. This thesis argues that PMCs should be considered to be non-state actors (NSAs), subject to international law from both an International Relations Theory and a Legal Theory perspective. This conclusion is linked to the issue of whether individual PMC employees can be treated as legitimate combatants according to IHL. State practice has not led to a clear understanding of the definition of combatant, a problem which has been compounded by a lack of government policy on the use of PMCs. Using Canadian experience as a case study, the thesis concludes that IHL suggests two options for regularizing the status of PMCs which would both strengthen accountability and uphold the rule of law.

Le concept de puissance connaît aujourd’hui de profondes mutations, tant liées à la globalisation qu'à l'apparition d'acteurs transnationaux influents dont les actions parfois fort efficaces exercent aujourd'hui une contrainte significative sur les Etats. L'omniprésence des médias, comme la progressive émergence d'une opinion publique mondiale informée et éduquée, renforcent le rôle des idées sur l’échiquier planétaire. Sur une planète où sont redistribués atouts et vulnérabilités, où de nouvelles lignes de fracture opèrent et où de nouvelles dynamiques réticulaires agissent, en particulier dans le cyberespace, comment se redessine la dialectique de la puissance, dans ses rapports à l'espace géographique, aux Etats, aux structures macrorégionales comme aux acteurs transnationaux ? Afin de répondre à cette question, seront étudiés le concept de puissance et ses mutations ; puis les nouveaux lieux de déploiement de cette puissance ; les contraintes historiques pesant sur les modalités d'exercice de cette puissance – tenant en particulier aux vestiges de la guerre froide – ; pour enfin aborder les nouveaux visages de l'influence internationale, laissant entrevoir comme un "au-delà de la puissance" dont l'interprétation inciterait à élargir, voire à redessiner, la plupart des concepts classiques des relations internationales. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux rapports qu’entretiennent géographie et théorie des relations internationales ainsi qu’à l'éclairage apporté par les outils de la géographie comme de la sociologie. Enfin, des conclusions concernant le cas français seront tirées de l’analyse scientifique ici menée ainsi que des évolutions mondiales étudiées. / The concept of power is involved in strong mutations, not only because of globalisation but also because of the appearance of influential transnational actors, which are able to shape states behaviour. The media's pervasiveness, added to the progressive advent of an informed and educated global public opinion, strengthens the role of ideas in the conduct of world affairs. On a planet where assets and vulnerabilities are redistributed, and where new key political divides operate - and also where unprecedented network dynamics are acting, especially into cyberspace - how power dialectic is reshaping itself, in relation to geographical space, macroregional structures and transnational actors ? In order to answer those questions, we will first study power conceptualisations and their evolutions, then we will examine the new modalities and environments of power deployment, historical constraints over power exercise, and, lastly, we will try to discover the new faces offered by international influence, letting us catch a glimpse of a sort of “beyond the power”, which interpretation would tend to reshape most of the classical concepts of international theory. Particular attention will be paid to the ties between geography and international theory and to the enlightenment that geography and sociology tools could offer in order to study the new planetary configuration. At last, conclusions about the French case will be deduced from our scientific analysis and, more generally, concerning world transformations.

Orientador: Flávia de Campos Mello. / Banca: Reginaldo Mattar Nasser / Banca: Rafael Duarte Villa / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituido em parceria co Unesp/Unicamp/PUC_SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: O trabalho retrata a diversificação do debate sobre "sociedade civil global" e sobre a ação política não-estatal além das fronteiras na literatura recente no campo das Relações Internacionais. O interesse no tema por parte de uma crescente gama de perspectivas teóricas reflete debates mais amplos em torno de conceitos que, ao lado da idéia de "sociedade civil global", surgiram na disciplina a partir do início dos anos 1990. Apresenta-se como cenário desta pluralização a insuficiência da literatura de inspiração liberal para explicar a permanência das desigualdades e hierarquias de poder no sistema mundial. Parte do imaginário positivo associado à "sociedade civil global" reside na idéia de que a perda de autonomia em âmbito doméstico - causada pelos processos de "globalização" - poderia ser compensada com o ativismo transnacional e/ou global, ou seja, na idéia de reformular a mediação entre universalidade/particularidade, formalizada na constituição das fronteiras modernas. Desse modo, o objetivo é estabelecer diálogos entre as várias perspectivas e mapear estas discussões tanto no que se refere aos atores e processos diretamente envolvidos na ação política não-estatal transnacional, quanto apontar sua inserção no debate teórico sobre as transposições de fronteiras, rearticulações das relações entre o doméstico e o internacional e a idéia de constituição de um campo político "global" / Abstract: This research shows the diversification of the debate on "global civil society" and the non-state political action beyond borders in the recent International Relations literature. The interest of an increasing variety of theoretical perspectives on these issues reflects wider debates on the concepts that - as the idea of "global civil society" - have emerged in the discipline since the beginning of the 1990s. The insufficiencies of liberal-oriented literature to explain the maintenance of inequalities and power hierarchies in the world system is the background to this diversification. Part of the positive image associated to a "global civil society" lies on the idea that the lost of autonomy in domestic realm - engendered by the globalization processes - could be counterbalanced with the transnational/global activism, that is to say in the idea of reformulating the mediation between universality/particularity formalized by the constitution of modern political boundaries. The objective is establishing dialogues between these variety of perspectives and mapping these discussions, not only in relation to the actors and process directly involved in the transnational political action, but also shedding light in their intersection with the wider and more theoretical debate on the problem of borders, of mediation / Mestre