This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

Michael J. Strauss is a professor of international relations and public international law at the Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques in Paris, and an instructor of international economic law at Université de Paris 5 (Paris Descartes). He has also been teaching annual international law courses as an invited professor at the Belarusian State University and International University "MITSO" in Minsk. Thanks to an earlier career as an awardwinning business and financial journalist, he brings new perspectives and insights to issues of territorial control.

Introduction; 1. The Privatization of States; 2. Extremes of Privatization; 3. Companies for Privatized Activities; 4. Control over Territory; 5. Company Ownership and Control; 6. Tracking Control and Influence over Companies; 7. The State and Its Business Abroad; 8. A Divergence of Interests; 9. Opaque Company Behavior Toward States; 10. Companies in Defiance of States; 11. "Imperfect Privatizations" and Territorial Control; 12. Defending Against Hostile Companies; 13. Challenges to States' Defensive Measures; 14. Challenges for International Law;