It is easy for the war on terror and the domestic economy to deflect our attention from the ongoing efforts toward "global governance" and regulatory control from "global" entities.  I just came across an important essay published earlier this month where John Fonte, senior fellow and director of the Center for American Cultural Studies at the Hudson Institute explains these issues.

The essay:
“Global Governance vs. the Liberal Democratic Nation-State: What Is the Best Regime?.”
 
And here is a publisher's summary:

"The essay explores the growing push to move from an 'international system of sovereign nation states' to a 'transnational system of global governance.' According to Fonte, 'for many of the world’s elites the big project of the twenty-first century is how to achieve global governance.'
 . . .
This threat needs to be confronted, as 'the governing center-left has internalized global governance and is prepared to promote it' and 'the governing center-right has for the most part failed to engage on the issue' due to an 'underdeveloped conceptualization.' Rather than ignoring the seriousness of the global governance movement, Fonte says that it is important that the center-right recognize that 'global governance is a regime challenge.”" (empasis added)

For my perspective that NGOs are just another player in interest group politics in the greater global governance movement, download:

Donald J. Kochan, The Political Economy of the Production of Customary International Law: The Role of NGOs and United States Courts, 21 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 240 (2004).