ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a radical political economy critique of the role of governance devolving to private business corporations under the multilateral trade agreement, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This agreement contributes to profound changes in state-society relations by de-centering states as “masters” of their households and as the constitutive “subjects” of international law. In their place are powerful transnational business corporations who, through the GATS, are interpellated as self-governing, neoliberal subjects, whose subjectivity lies not with any particular state but with a new master, that of transnational capitalism and the nascent transnational and neoliberal business civilization.
