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It revisits earlier debates on business power and state dependence, then argues that mainstream IR underestimates how global capitalism structures make large firms direct political actors. Structural power is reconceptualized as mutual dependencies between business and the state, generating uneven opportunities for companies and asymmetric leverage for states to play firms against each other. 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