Description
Writing Global Trade Governance
Discourse and the WTO
Interventions Series
Author: Strange Michael
Language: EnglishSubject for Writing Global Trade Governance:
Keywords
WTO; Global Trade; Governance; Michael Strange; Global Trade Governance; MTO; WTO Secretariat; Post-structuralist Discourse Theory; Equivalential Chains; WTO Ministerial Conference; GATT Regime; Civil Society; WTO Member State; WTO Institution; Developed Country Member States; NGO Identity; MFN Clause; Gat Negotiation; GATT Director General; WTO Study; Articulate Gat; GATT Secretariat; Multilateral Trade Governance; MFN Principle; Member State Identity; Draft MAI; Montreal Mid-term Review; Multilateral Trade Organization; Seattle WTO Ministerial
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Add to cart the book of Strange MichaelPublication date: 02-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Add to cart the book of Strange MichaelPublication date: 08-2013
224 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Writing Global Trade Governance operationalises a key post-structuralist methodology in order to expand understanding on the institution at the heart of the global political economy. Despite the WTO?s centrality and the growing popularity of methods utilizing discourse theory, no other text has yet demonstrated how these two fields of learning can be productively combined. The book seeks to move beyond existing literatures that assume the WTO to be a structure, institution or normative framework, in order to enquire into the discursive processes of identity formation that make the WTO both possible and contested.
The book criticises conventional approaches that treat critical civil society as distinct to the WTO, arguing instead that it is only through including such social practices within the field of relations making the WTO that we can properly understand what makes the WTO work. The book presents an empirical analysis of the discursive character of the present-day WTO (including its formation and operation) and then moves on to evaluate how it is subject to change within a broader social context. The final stage of the book seeks to discuss the impact of the findings on future research, both on the WTO and other institutions.
This work is a significant intervention in the literature on the World Trade Organization and the politics of global trade and social movements, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of global governance, discourse theory and international organizations
Introduction: Embedding the World Trade Organization 2. Contesting Global Trade Governance – A Genealogy 3. The WTO as an Uncertain Political Project 4. The Emergence of New Actors in the WTO – the ‘NGO’ Identity 5. The Formation of New Actors Contesting the WTO – 6. Conclusion: The Discursivity of Global Trade Governance
Michael Strange is a Reader (Docent) in International Relations, Dept. of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.