The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO
The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO
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DOI：
10.1007/s11186-005-6301-9
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Chorev, N
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作者：
Chorev, N
本文考察了世界贸易组织（WTO）对国内贸易政策和做法的影响。这表明，由于世贸组织加强了争端解决程序，包括美国在内的保护主义措施已受到有效挑战，并因此受到限制。我指出，新程序通过改变竞争行为者的政治影响力，影响了实质性的政策结果。具体来说，我确定了影响参与者政治影响力的四种转变：政治权威的重新调整、国家间关系的司法化、国际组织的制度化以及国家的结构性国际化。在此基础上，本文提出了全球化作为一项制度工程的观点。这种观点强调全球化进程的政治层面；报告指出，通过改变现有的体制安排，促进了这个项目；它指出了美国霸权和全球化计划本身内在的矛盾。
This article examines the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on domestic trade policies and practices. It shows that protectionist measures, including those practiced by the United States, have been effectively challenged, and consequently restricted, due to the WTO strengthened dispute settlement procedures. I show that the new procedures affected the substantive policy outcomes by changing the political influence of competing actors. Specifically, I identify four transformations affecting the political influence of participants: the re-scaling of political authority, the judicialization of inter-state relations, the institutionalization of the international organization, and the structural internationalization of the state. Based on this case, the article offers a view of globalization as an institutional project. This view emphasizes the political dimension of the process of globalization; it suggests that this project was facilitated by transforming the institutional arrangements in place; and it identifies the contradictions inherent in it both to U.S. hegemony and to the globalization project itself.