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- Title
Deliberation als Reaktion auf Protest? Das zivilgesellschaftliche Dialogforum der WTO.
- Authors
Hack, Regina
- Abstract
In reaction to protests of the alter-globalization movement, the World Trade Organization (WTO) established an official forum for dialogue with civil society actors in 2001. Numerous actors from civil society have participated in the dialogue forums since then. Some hoped that the protests might have triggered the WTO to integrate civil society actors more broadly and listen to critical voices in particular. Following Iris Marion Young's critical discussion of deliberation as a means of political participation in terms of its potentials and constraints, this article elaborates how the WTO interacts with the participants and who is included or excluded. For this purpose, I examine the accessibility, the procedural openness and the inclusivity of the forum as well as the »absence of external power relations«. With these criteria in mind, I consider whether the WTO forum can fulfill the legitimating potential of deliberation, as illustrated in the following pattern of interaction: while moderate critical voices are integrated into the WTO's practices, radical voices are excluded from the discourse and effectively delegitimized.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0946-7165-2017-1-37