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NGOs and Global Trade - Non-state voices in EU trade policymaking (Hardcover)
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NGOs and Global Trade - Non-state voices in EU trade policymaking (Hardcover)
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International trade continues to be a focal point for political and
social contestation. The extension of World Trade Organization
(WTO) Agreements into new areas such as investment, services and
intellectual property rights engendered massive conflict and
rendered ongoing negotiations infinitely more technical and
complex. A chorus of legitimacy concerns were raised by the
extension of trade rules beyond barriers to trade at the border to
national regulatory regimes in a host of ostensibly non-trade areas
such as food safety, environment, human health and taxation.
Meanwhile, the WTO's Doha Development Round of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations is trapped in seemingly endless deadlock. These
developments are accompanied by the proliferation of progressive,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are critical of the
global trade agenda. They aim to elevate social, cultural and
environmental concerns of entire communities over market-related
concerns in the international trade system and to give a voice to
poor and otherwise marginalized groups in trade policymaking
processes.This book considers whether more open trade policymaking
processes that include progressive NGOs lead to a stronger, more
legitimate and qualitatively enhanced international trade system.
The European Union (EU) stands out among major trading powers for
its significant and dramatic response to new demands for access and
participation. This book examines whether improvements in the
political opportunity structure for progressive NGOs results in
more legitimate external trade policymaking in the EU. Hannah
argues that there is clear potential for NGOs to represent
citizens' demands, constitute a basic form of popular
representation and hold decision-makers accountable to a broader
public, and in the past NGOs have been instrumental in providing
education, raising awareness, and giving a voice to broader
societal concerns about the social, environmental and
health-related aspects of proposed trade deals. However, they have
not been able to determine policy outcomes in this arena,
regardless of whether they are deeply and formally integrated into
the trade policymaking process or protesting on the margins.The
book builds upon the insights of constructivism to advance an
alternative account of the role of NGOs in the EU's trade
policymaking process, suggesting that NGOs have succeeded only when
their attempts to achieve more democratic, sustainable and
equitable trade policies have conformed broadly to the dominant
episteme. When they seek to overrule that episteme, they fail.
These findings suggest that early optimism about the power of NGOs
to influence international public policy was both premature and
naive. This book will be of value to scholars and students with an
interest in NGOs and international trade negotiations, as well as
to policymakers, national trade negotiators, government departments
and the trade policy community.
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