Carina Moser, M.A.

Project F09: "'Globalization' and Free Trade. The Clinton Administration, the WTO and the Anti-Globalization Movement"

F09 addresses the emergence of the discourse of globalization during the 1990s and early 2000s, taking a synchronic perspective on how this discourse and its inherent notions of threatened orders shaped contemporary political interpretations and actions in the United States. The focus is on the expansion of free trade promoted by the Clinton administration. In particular, the members of the administration who were instrumental in the substantive formulation and practical design of the free trade policy agenda, as well as actors and institutions with whom the administration engaged in exchanges on foreign economic policy issues. Depending on the level of analysis and the field of investigation, international organizations such as the WTO and non-governmental actors such as parts of the globalization-critical movement, think tanks and public intellectuals will also be included in the study.