JOURNAL ARTICLE

Unsafe at Any Speed? Fighting Corporate-Led Globalization.

  • Published In: Diplomatic History, 2023, v. 47, n. 5. P. 880 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Simpson, Brad 3 of 3

Abstract

In the wake of the "Battle of Seattle", as the 1999 WTO protests were quickly dubbed, fair globalization activists felt the wind behind their backs. The big fight, however, erupted in the early 1990s, when a burgeoning "fair globalization coalition" of labor unions, environmental NGOs, and consumer groups such as Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch formed to oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), working with Canadian and Mexican counterparts (120). These "public interest progressives" outlined a reformist agenda to regulate multinational corporations and pursue global trade and investment policies that would reduce rather than exacerbate global inequality (7). [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Diplomatic History. 2023/11, Vol. 47, Issue 5, p880
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Law
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0145-2096
  • DOI:10.1093/dh/dhad053
  • Accession Number:173017317
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