When communism proved to be unsuccessful, a free-market economy was accepted as a means to marshal economic development. Then, the private economy was considered essential for the development of an economy. As a result, privatization of state companies took place in developed and developing countries. Accordingly, the ideological predisposition to foreign investment has shifted the view that. A multinational corporation is a threat to the sovereignty of developing states has changed. Developing states have built up confidence in dealing with these multinational corporations. Multinational corporations, on their part, usually ceased to be instruments of the foreign policy of their home states. It was also observed that such corporations formed alliances with developing states. For example, foreign corporations in the petroleum sector formed alliances with oil-exporting states to the determinant of oil-importing developed states.