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No country can be allowed to resist American cultural imperialism.


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Surveying eight years of the WTO's gradual erosion of democracy around the world.

No country can be allowed to resist American cultural imperialism.—US Chamber of Commerce letter to the Office of the US Trade Representative, 1996

When trade bureaucrats, government ministers and heads of state from around the world gather in Mexico this September for a meeting of the World Trade Organization, they will be confronted by the opposition that has followed the group since it was set up eight years ago, from Seattle to Quebec to Genoa. As Lori Wallach ably demonstrates in this punchy new book, the organization's detractors have ample cause for protest.

Whose Trade Organization? documents the WTO's persistent undermining of the attempts by governments around the world to maintain independent standards on everything from food safety and public health to protections for workers and the environment. With updated, case-by-case studies, the book exposes the lopsided agreements, secret tribunals and legal challenges that are the tools of the WTO's trade, and reveals the core of an aggressive agenda for corporate-led trade liberalization.

With an introduction by Ralph Nader, Whose Trade Organization? shows how the WTO can be effectively challenged and the way to build a public-centered, democratic alternative.

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: New Press, The; 2 edition (March 25, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1565848411
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565848412
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #862,627 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WTO - the real antichrist!, August 19, 2000
By Michael S. Mirigian (Fresno, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy (Paperback)
A MUST read for all citizens and government employees! We have been sold down the river. All of our health, safety, environmental, labor, and manufacturing policies have been compromised by the dictates of the WTO. The only ones benefitting from this organization are multi-national and U.S. mega-corporations and rich countries. They can challenge any and all policies of any country in which they feel there is trade discrimination. Wallach and Sforza do a fantastic job of documenting numerous instances.
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23 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful data on WTO, slim analysis, June 10, 2002
This review is from: Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy (Paperback)
Contrary to the typical rantings of Neo-cons and neo-liberals, this book is not a book by and for Socialists (or, more accurately, anti-capitalists of any sort). This book does not have any kind of critique of capitalism. Only the sort of ideologues who lust after Latin American dictatorships like Pinochet's, which meant 'small government' (no social welfare type apparatus) and a strong state (death squads, political executions, smashing of dissent), will find this book threatening.

The book does have a lot of useful information on how the WTO runs and how it is focussed on the needs of corporations, most of which reside in the most developed capitalist countries, and which seek a set of global rules that allows them greater freedom of movement to invest and exploit (wow, I already hear the neo-cons whining because I used the 'E' word.) It also shows that the balance between global capital and the nation state has shifted, though this does not have the dire anti-democratic consequences claimed herein. That would be the liberal assumption that the nation state 'represents the people' and that that is a good thing.

At the same time as some people claim that the WTO is killing the nation state, this book makes it clear that the WTO is a body run by and through nation states. Corporations cannot directly intervene, but must have their concerns addressed through nation state mediators.

The book also does a good job of exposing the total lack of accountability of the WTO, as well as one of its unique features: unlike previous UN organizations, the WTO has disciplinary powers which it can use to enforce its rulings, something no 'humanitarian' part of the UN ever had.

The abscence of any kind of class analysis hinders this book theoretically and means that some possibly interesting questions do not get answered.

This book is better read alongside some other texts, which, even with their failings, fill in some of blanks here, such as Negri and Hardt's Empire.

Overall, a pretty useful and utilitarian overview of the WTO.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Looking on WTO info? This is the one!, October 25, 2002
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This review is from: Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy (Paperback)
Just what are all those protesters so upset about, anyway? This book will tell you. It's a quick, accurate, well-composed book examining the effects of the WTO on developing countries' poverty, health care, natural resources, and human rights.

This review doesn't need to be lengthy: Look, there are lots of books on the WTO. If you want the accurate summary to understand this issue simply, this is it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Data, data, data, no story no narrative
This book is merely a compilation of statistics that run counter to WTO claims. There is no history of the WTO, no descriptions of its members, staff, headquarters, etc. Read more
Published on September 17, 2007 by Meme Mutation

2.0 out of 5 stars A book on all the wrong arguements
I had to read Whose Trade Organization for a graduate level political science course. The books is perfect for those arguing on the anti-globalization side of the debate and may... Read more
Published on October 6, 2005 by Patrick R. Gibbons

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be better...alot better
When I purchased this book I was hoping to learn more about the structure of the World Trade Organization, how it functions, etc. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars An alternative perspective
This book did a wonderful job of thoroughly covering dispute cases and pointing out structural flaws in the WTO. Read more
Published on January 24, 2002 by Kelly

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