1st Edition

Writing Global Trade Governance Discourse and the WTO

By Michael Strange Copyright 2014
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Michael Strange is a Reader (Docent) in International Relations, Dept. of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.