NGOs and Global Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NGOs and Global Trade write by Erin Hannah. This book was released on 2016-01-29. NGOs and Global Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a deeply iniquitous world, where the gains from trade are distributed unevenly and where trade rules often militate against progressive social values, human health, and sustainable development, NGOs are widely touted as our best hope for redressing these conditions. As a critical voice of the poor and marginalized, many are engaged in a global struggle for democratic norms and social justice. Yet the potential for NGOs to bring about meaningful change is limited. This book examines whether improvements in participatory opportunities for progressive NGOs results in substantive and normative policy change in one of the major trading powers, the European Union. Hannah advances a constructivist account of the role of NGOs in the EU’s trade policymaking process. She argues that NGOs have been instrumental in providing education, raising awareness, and giving a voice to broader societal concerns about proposed trade deals, both when they take advantage of formal participatory opportunities and when they protest from the streets and in the media. However, the book also highlights how NGO inputs are mediated by the social structure of global trade governance. Epistemes—the background knowledge, ideological and normative beliefs, and shared assumptions about how the world works—determine who has a voice in global trade governance. Showing how NGOs succeed only when their advocacy conforms broadly to the dominant episteme, this book will be of value to scholars and students with an interest in NGOs and international trade negotiations. It will also be of interest to policymakers, national trade negotiators, government departments, and the trade policy community.
The Making of International Trade Policy
The Making of International Trade Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of International Trade Policy write by Hannah Murphy. This book was released on 2010-01-01. The Making of International Trade Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the contributions of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to policymaking at the WTO, challenging the idea that NGOs can be narrowly understood as potential democratic antidotes to the imperfections of Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs). The book highlights the significance of interactions between states, NGOs and IGOs, in order to understand their contributions to international trade governance. Based on case studies in the areas of labour standards, intellectual property and investment rules, the author finds that NGO activities serve an agenda setting function: they publicize neglected traderelated issues, persuade others to support their positions, enhance the resources of less developed member states and highlight normative rationales for policy change. In evaluating NGO campaign tactics and emphasizing relations between NGOs and WTO member states, this book advances understandings of the parameters of NGO agency in global governance. The Making of International Trade Policy will appeal to scholars andstudents with an interest in NGOs, research institutes and thinktanks, as well as policymakers, national trade negotiators, government departments and the trade policy community. NGO personnel active on WTO and trade policy issues - both researchers and activists - will also find this book thought-provoking.
International Trade and Global Civil Society
International Trade and Global Civil Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Trade and Global Civil Society write by Dev Nathan. This book was released on 2012-04-27. International Trade and Global Civil Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study challenges the dominant tendency of civil society to negate international trade as such. The authors argue that it is necessary to frame differentiated trade rules based on levels of economic development, and also to shift from subsidies to shore up uncompetitive livelihoods to productivity-enhancing investments.Most importantly, the book ends with a case for trade unions, women's organizations and other civil society organizations to imagine and create themselves as being global -- in order to take up the challenge of strengthening global countervailing power to capital.
Global Trade and Global Social Issues
Global Trade and Global Social Issues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Trade and Global Social Issues write by Annie Taylor. This book was released on 2005-10-24. Global Trade and Global Social Issues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Global Trade and Social Issues leading academics and NGO workers offer a much-needed counterweight to the liberal consensus. A critical reflection on the whole project of restructuring world trade, this is essential reading for those working in international political economy, development studies, international relations and environmental studies.
Trade Law and Global Governance
Trade Law and Global Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trade Law and Global Governance write by Steve Charnovitz. This book was released on 2002. Trade Law and Global Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book addresses the linkages between freer trade and other societal objectives. The chapters are previously published articles on some of the most controversial issues in trade policy today. The topics include: (1) the core concepts of trade linkage, (2) trade and environmental policy, (3) trade, employment, and labour standards, (4) trade and human rights, and (5) the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The main theme of the book is that trade law should not be isolated from other realms of international law. Trade is vital to economic and human development, but trade restrictions are sometimes needed to preseve ecosystems and to achieve other social goals." -- from the Preface.
