Research Article

A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round

Volume: 74 Number: 1 February 6, 2019
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A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round

Abstract

This paper analyzes the lack of progress and the breakdown of the Doha Round talks in world trade since 2001 from a neo-Gramscian perspective. The failure to conclude multilateral trade negotiations reflect an emerging new architecture of power politics in the world political-economic order. Major economic powers, including the United States (US), the European Union (EU), Japan and Canada as well as leading transnational companies used to have a significant impact on guiding the agenda of the multilateral trade negotiations as well as defining the outcomes. However, in the context of the WTO, emerging powers such as India, Brazil, and China and several non-governmental organizations critical of neoliberal globalization began to confront the former groups’ dominance. Developing and developed countries have contending views on the agenda issues, marked by confrontation on the former’s insistence for the liberalization of agricultural markets by industrialized states and the latter’s pressure for the liberalization of non-agricultural markets. Both sides employ certain strategies and discourses to coerce or to persuade the opposing parties. Hence, the paper argues that the multilateral trade negotiations emerge as zones of exercising hegemony rather than being an area to produce common norms, values and policies for the well-being of all members in the world trade regime.

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References

  1. Referans 1 Altay, S. (2011), “Hegemony, Private Actors, and International Institutions: Transnational Corporations as the Agents of Transformation of the Trade Regime from GATT to the WTO”, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Trento University, Italy.

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

February 6, 2019

Submission Date

November 13, 2017

Acceptance Date

March 6, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 74 Number: 1

APA
Balkan Şahin, S. (2019). A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, 74(1), 237-255. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.523279
AMA
1.Balkan Şahin S. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round. SBF Dergisi. 2019;74(1):237-255. doi:10.33630/ausbf.523279
Chicago
Balkan Şahin, Sevgi. 2019. “A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 74 (1): 237-55. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.523279.
EndNote
Balkan Şahin S (February 1, 2019) A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 74 1 237–255.
IEEE
[1]S. Balkan Şahin, “A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round”, SBF Dergisi, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 237–255, Feb. 2019, doi: 10.33630/ausbf.523279.
ISNAD
Balkan Şahin, Sevgi. “A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 74/1 (February 1, 2019): 237-255. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.523279.
JAMA
1.Balkan Şahin S. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round. SBF Dergisi. 2019;74:237–255.
MLA
Balkan Şahin, Sevgi. “A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, vol. 74, no. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 237-55, doi:10.33630/ausbf.523279.
Vancouver
1.Sevgi Balkan Şahin. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round. SBF Dergisi. 2019 Feb. 1;74(1):237-55. doi:10.33630/ausbf.523279