Civil Society Engagement in Trade Negotiations: CAFTA Opposition Movements in El Salvador

Spalding, Rose J.

doi:10.1353/lap.2007.0048

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“…This supports the findings of the study by Spalding (2007). They believed they (private aid agencies) had a facilitating role and were trying to achieve a common agenda.…”

Section: Conflictive Symbiosissupporting

confidence: 87%

Transnational Activism and Free Trade. Exploring the Emancipatory Potentials of Global Civil Society

Felice

2011

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This article explores the alleged emancipatory potential of global civil society as regards transnational activism to promote fair trade. It examines the case of transnational activism on European Free Trade Agreements, with illustrations from the Stop EPAs campaign and activism relating to the negotiation of an Association Agreement between the EU and Central America. It looks at how ideas of fair trade are expressed and at the process of managing diversity and searching for common messages. Activists working in North-South open and ideological diverse coalitions managed the tensions between reform and resistance for the perceived benefits of increased voice. Though transnational activism created more space for debate and action thereby promoting inclusion of different voices, some views remain marginal in the search for compromises. The analysis suggests that global civil society cannot be understood as a single entity. Rather, the emancipatory contents and meanings of global civil society are being forged through these conflicts and interactions among different groups.Résumé Cet article est une étude du potentiel supposé d'émancipation de la société civile mondiale pour ce qui a trait à l'activisme international en faveur de la promotion du commerce équitable. Il examine les arguments de l'activisme international sur les Accords européens de libre échange, et s'appuie sur des exemples tirés de la campagne Stop EPA et de l'activisme relatif à la négociation d'un pacte d'association entre l'Union Européenne et l'Amérique centrale. Par ailleurs, il s'intéresse à la manière dont les idées de commerce équitable sont exprimées ainsi qu'au processus de gestion de la diversité et de recherche de messages communs. Les activistes travaillant du nord au sud au sein de coalitions Resumen Este artículo explora el presunto potencial emancipatorio de una sociedad civil global en lo que respecta al activismo transnacional para promover el comercio justo (''fair trade''). Estudia el caso del activismo transnacional en Tratados Europeos de Libre Comercio, con ilustraciones de la campaña Stop EPAs y el activismo relacionado con la negociación de un Tratado de Asociación entre la Unión Europea y América Central. Observa la forma en que se expresan las ideas relacionadas con el comercio justo y el proceso de administración de la diversidad y la búsqueda de mensajes en común. Los activistas que trabajan en coaliciones abiertas norte-sur e ideológicamente diversas administraron las tensiones entre reforma y resistencia para los beneficios percibidos que derivar de una voz en crecimiento. A pesar que el activismo transnacional generó oportunidades de mayor debate y acción, promoviendo la inclusión de diversas voces, algunos puntos de vista aún se encuentran marginados en un contexto de búsqueda de compromisos. El análisis sugiere que la sociedad civil global no puede comprenderse como una sola entidad. Por el contrario, los contenidos y significados emancipadores de la sociedad civil global se están forjando a través de est...

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“…This supports the findings of the study by Spalding (2007). They believed they (private aid agencies) had a facilitating role and were trying to achieve a common agenda.…”

Section: Conflictive Symbiosissupporting

confidence: 87%

Transnational Activism and Free Trade. Exploring the Emancipatory Potentials of Global Civil Society

Felice

2011

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“…A diverse leftist coalition, including the Inter-American Regional Organization for Workers and the Hemispheric Social Alliance alongside leftist governments, blocked a US-supported Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) because it did not encompass social policy or social rights (Briceño Ruiz 2007). Civil society groups made similar objections to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Spalding 2007).…”

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Contested world order: The delegitimation of international governance

2018

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This article argues that the chief challenge to international governance is an emerging political cleavage, which pits nationalists against immigration, free trade, and international authority. While those on the radical left contest international governance for its limits, nationalists reject it in principle. A wide-ranging cultural and economic reaction has reshaped political conflict in Europe and the United States and is putting into question the legitimacy of the rule of law among states.

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“…During the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) negotiations in El Salvador, for instance, two civil society coalitions adopted competing approaches to influence rights in trade-one asked to participate in the negotiations and attempted to align its proposals with the government's trade objectives, and the other tried to stop the negotiations forcefully. 30 The result? The government ignored both demands, moved up its deliberations to a 3:00 a.m. session, and approved CAFTA eight hours later.…”

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Invisible Workers

LeClercq

2022

AJIL Unbound

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In the parable, The Emperor Has No Clothes, an emperor walks naked through a public procession, assured by his own pride and vain advisors that he was wearing a magnificent robe visible only to the smart and worthy. Like the emperor, governments imagine that they have cloaked international economic law in a new “worker-centered” trade policy. This essay explains how their efforts have merely exposed the deficits in international economic law. They have failed to account for asymmetries between capital and labor and hierarchies between sectors of workers. They also exclude the voices of the world's most vulnerable workers—particularly those who do not benefit from union representation or job formality. The essay proposes that if policymakers intend to give workers an authentic voice and bargaining power, they must critically examine international economic law's very corpus.

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Civil Society Engagement in Trade Negotiations: CAFTA Opposition Movements in El Salvador

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