ABSTRACT
This chapter draws comparisons and highlights contrasts with the recent work of William Twining on globalization and legal theory. It addresses two themes which respond to Twining's call for an increased attention to the notion of 'generalizability' and examines norms and concepts which, as he puts it, 'travel well'. International Economic Organizations such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, play a key role within processes of globalization and are important sites which both produce and are shaped by narratives of globalization. Economic discourse is central to almost all popular narratives about globalization. The chapter considers the ways in which narratives of globalization, and in particular the economic myths associated with those stories, shape the normative effects of trade rules. It concludes that one of the key processes by which political contestation is excluded from trade discourse is through that field's links to economics.
