Writing Global Trade Governance - 9781138896703

Taylor & Francis

Writing Global Trade GovernanceDiscourse and the WTO\nAuthor(s): Michael Strange\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138896703, 978-1138896703\nSynopsis\nWriting 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 WTOs 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.\n\nThe book criticises conventional approaches that treat critical civil society as distinct to the WTO, arguing instead that it is only through includings