Writing Global Trade Governance: Discourse And The WTO

Cover
Writing Global Trade Governance
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 | Introduction: Embedding the World Trade Organization
	The WTO as the ‘rule of law’ or as ‘power politics’
	The problem of defining agency in the WTO
	Problematizing the WTO as Member-led
	The social construction of the Member state identity
	The WTO as a sedimented discursive formation
	A new research strategy: the WTO in this book
	What is the ‘WTO’?
2 | Contesting global trade governance: A genealogy of the WTO
	Introduction
	Genealogy
	Multiple articulations of global trade governance
	National security
	Peaceful cooperation
	Weapon of the free world
	Development
	Multilateralism
	Radically rearticulating global trade governance
	Articulating the need for an organization
	Emergence of new identities
	Conclusion
3 | The WTO as an uncertain political project
	Introduction
	The WTO as formal rules and informal norms
	An uncertain identity
	Conclusion
4 | The emergence of new actors in the WTO: The NGO identity
	Introduction
	The question of the ‘actor’: a problematization of the primacy of the Member state identity
	Formalization of NGOs in the WTO
	Beyond the formal NGO identity
	Contesting NGOs in the WTO
	Politicization of global trade governance
	Conclusion
5 | The formation of new actors contesting the WTO: The example of anti-GATS campaigning
	Introduction
	Case study
	Emergence of a collective identity
	A very brief introduction to the GATS
	Articulating the critique of GATS
	The sedimentation of an anti-GATS equivalential chain
	Unequal mobilization
	Campaigning as multi-pronged
	The end of political mobilization critical of the GATS?
	Conclusion: the elasticity of equivalential chains
6 | Conclusion: The discursivity of global trade governance
	Introduction
	Summary
	So what if the WTO is understood discursively?
	The WTO reconsidered
Bibliography
Index