The aim of this project is to carry on an anthropology of transnational governance, based on an intensive survey made by an international group of researchers within the World Trade Organization (WTO).
In the context of globalisation, the nature, the role and the power of international organisations has become a crucial issue. In the field of economics, the WTO, whose purpose it is to liberalize global trade by putting into effect a system of rules designed to ensure free trade in goods, is hardly a well- known organisation. Although arguments for or against free trade are more and more common, we have only superficial knowledge of how this organisation really functions, what negotiations it initiates or how disputes between its members are settled.
This is why we propose to carry out field research designed to make its workings better known, taking into account the trans-national and intercultural character of this organisation.
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