On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Rainmaker wrote:
>
> Operating in the U.S. **is not** the issue. How do they control
> companies who are not operating in the U.S.? And, where do they
> get the manpower (people power ;-}) to monitor all this?
Coercion :) There's a nice body of international law out there on the
various ways this is done (bi-lateral treatues, multilateral ones,
custom), but in the end it really comes down to coercion. Government A
doesn't like the practices of Company B operating in the jurisidiction of
Government C, so Government C finds itself facing a threat of reduced
access to some thing of importance which gets them to crack down on the
company.
There's also the issue of investment. Any overseas company that has US
stocks, or any other kind of investment in their portfolio, can find them
frozen very quickly whether they live here or not. There's a lot of ways
to put a stranglehold on investment money and coerce changes in behavior
;)
B
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