How the GATS was won (and lost?)
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How the GATS was won (and lost?) book
ByJane Kelsey
BookServing Whose Interests?
Imprint Routledge-Cavendish
The story of 'how the GATS was won' in 1994 is, at one level, about a contest between the US, as the superpower of the global North, and India and Brazil as the lead advocates for the global South. At a more profound level it documents the transition from one hegemonic regime to another. The US, at the apex of a bloc of leading industrialised countries, used its structural power to rewrite the rules for the domestic regulation of services. The project was supported by corporate and intellectual élites whose role was to develop strategies and propose the mechanisms to achieve that goal. The process of constructing the new regime under the conditions that prevailed at that time was much easier than sustaining it in the new millennium.