Multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly create and control markets. In recent decades there has been a striking tendency for MNCs to grow in size, wealth and political influence. They are political actors deeply entangled with states in reciprocal relationships of dependence, which put significant constraints on the ability of states to regulate corporations, e.g. to prevent human rights abuses and environmental degradation. Effective ways to redress power imbalances between MNCs and society have thus not been institutionalised and are needed. Nonviolent action (NVA) is a technique of b...