دانلود کتاب Writing Global Trade Governance: Discourse And The WTO

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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