The Global Battle Over Intellectual Property
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Protection and Enforcement
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197766453
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x157x17 mm
- Weight 308 g
- Language English 1132
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Short description:
In The Global Battle Over Intellectual Property, Susan K. Sell examines the many reasons that IP is such a contested field, and she focuses on the dynamics driving change and the implications they have for governance and implementing more equitable policies. Throughout, she relies on the metaphor of cat and mouse to capture the complex dynamics of power, the strategic use of institutions, and discourse that drive the politics of IP. Throughout, Sell combines insights from political economy, law, and sociology and offers new insights into regime complexity and dynamics. More broadly, the framework she develops can be applied to a variety of highly contested issues, including financial regulation and climate change.
MoreLong description:
Governance of intellectual property (IP) at the international level has in recent decades become one of the most contentious issues in international political economy. It is also enormously complex and dynamic. In The Global Battle Over Intellectual Property, the eminent international relations scholar Susan K. Sell focuses on why IP is such a contested field. The reasons are many. The current IP regime's distributional consequences across countries are highly uneven. There has been a proliferation of international IP forums, sometimes working at cross purposes and striving for different goals. The ever-increasing complexity of the regime raises profound questions about representation and legitimacy. While there is clearly a set of powerful stakeholders, whether they are the right ones or not is an open question.
To address the range of these related issues, Sell focuses on the dynamics driving change and the implications they have for governance and implementing more equitable policies. Throughout, she relies on the metaphor of cat and mouse to explain how the influence of complicated power relations, the strategic use of institutions, and discourse that drive the politics of IP. Combining insights from political economy, law, and sociology, Sell offers new insights into regime complexity and dynamics. Importantly, the framework she develops can be applied to a variety of highly contested issues, including climate change and financial regulation.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
List of figures and tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Intellectual Property, Power, Institutions, and Issue Framing
Chapter 3: Cat and Mouse Dynamics: Recursive in Time and Space
Chapter 4: Patents and Access to Medicines: Horizontal Forum-shifting
Chapter 5: Patents and Access to Medicines: Vertical Forum-shifting
Chapter 6: IP as an Investment Asset: Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Chapter 7: Digital Copyright: Internet Treaties, DMCA, and State Transformation
Chapter 8: The Mouse Strikes Back: Copyright in the Digital Age
Chapter 9: The Cat Disappears and Comes Roaring Back: Private Ordering, the TPP, the European Copyright Directive, and ISDS
Chapter 10: Enforcement, Legitimacy, and the Future of IP Governance
Appendix
References
Index
