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Transatlantic investor protection as a threat to democracy : the potency and limits of an emotive frame
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Siles-Brügge, Gabriel (2017) Transatlantic investor protection as a threat to democracy : the potency and limits of an emotive frame. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30 (5-6). pp. 464-488. doi:10.1080/09557571.2018.1461805 ISSN 0955-7571.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2018.1461805
Abstract
A campaign by civil society organisations (CSOs) turned a relatively obscure area of international economic law, investor - state dispute settlement (ISDS), into the focus for opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – and later also the European Union (EU) - Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). This article analyses how CSOs had some power in shaping the EU’s position but also highlights the limits of their influence. Combining insights from constructivist International Political Economy with scholarship emphasising the importance of emotions in the framing strategies of CSOs, contend that such groups were able to create a polysemic ‘injustice frame’. Characterising transatlantic ISDS as a threat to democracy and the rule of law aroused anger and was sufficiently ambiguously framed so as to have wide appeal. The ambiguity of the frame and concreteness of the target, however, were also its Achilles Heel. It provided space for the Commission to undertake reforms to a specific element of the agreement that could also be legitimated in terms of their democratic credentials.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International trade -- Law and legislation, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cambridge Review of International Affairs | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0955-7571 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 30 | ||||||
Number: | 5-6 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 464-488 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09557571.2018.1461805 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 February 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 March 2019 | ||||||
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