ABSTRACT

Serving Whose Interests? explores the political economy of trade in services agreements from a critical legal perspective. The controversy surrounding the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and its variants at the regional and bilateral levels can, it is argued, be seen as a clash between two paradigms. For most of the twentiet

chapter |21 pages

Introduction Taking services to market

chapter 1|36 pages

Reading the GATS as ideology

chapter 2|31 pages

How the GATS was won (and lost?)

chapter 4|33 pages

The illusion of public services

chapter 5|37 pages

Ruling the services infrastructure

chapter 7|34 pages

Minds and markets

chapter 8|29 pages

Dominion over the earth

chapter 9|34 pages

Energy wars