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A dual discourse has evolved since the Doha Declaration was announced in Nov 2001: that of reconciling multilateral trade liberalization with multiple and diverse developmental priorities. The perception remains that business has shown a lack of constructive engagement in the multilateral trade policy debate. Leading non-governmental advocacy groups, meanwhile, have widened their influence. The trade debate has now entered the public sphere, a non-habitual ground for business. This means that business needs to make an extra effort to correct open market misconceptions, such as that the global trading system was devised for exclusionary private gains rather than for providing a public good. More transparent WTO procedures and negotiating processes will help media and the general public t...
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..., opening up a further level of discourse in the form of graffiti". . Because of the close c...
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... exchanged ideas and created an artistic discourse that influenced future generations. Bissier wrote ...
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This paper traces the linking of trade and security, a characteristic of US foreign economic policy since 2001. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. We argue that the US has been unable to resist the temptation to link foreign economic and security policy. While there was evidence of the securitisation of economic globalisation in US policy from day one of the BUSH Administration, it was September 11 that firmed up this trend. Ever since, the BUSH government has been seeing globalisation not simply in neoliberal economic terms, but also through the lenses of the national security agenda of the United States. Economic globalisation has been linked to security policy. This trend is evident in East Asia, where the United States has put an emphasis on Free Trade Agr...
... relations with Asia, the securitisation discourse is one of reward and threat. It were the exception...
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The trend towards private philanthropic foundations has seen some of the worlds most powerful past and present leaders lending business and political clout to public-private partnerships for international development. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest private philanthropic foundation. Since its inception in 2000, the foundation has pledged in excess of US$21 billion in grants to projects across the US and in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1998 by the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Foundation, Klaus Schwab, and his wife Hilde, the Schwab Foundation promotes social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for social innovation and progress. Established in 2003, the Clinton Foundation focuses on addressing global climate change, HIV/AIDS in the developing w...
..., fund research and influence public discourse on global issues such as climate change, environme...
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...It is exactly this discourse that interests us." . In the end however, Chiarenz...
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... by not allowing a more two-sided public discourse." . This view squares with that of another defende...
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... point there is an answer and a common discourse among political parties, philosophical factions an...
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... recurrent themes to be found in his discourse, and he remained active and current in his nationa...
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...Our tattered discourse goes in all directions at once as we argue in favo...