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dc.contributor.advisorSmith - Simonsen, Christine
dc.contributor.authorBerg, Lars Martin
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-12T09:25:52Z
dc.date.available2010-02-12T09:25:52Z
dc.date.issued2009-12-14
dc.description.abstractThe World Trade Organization claims to help keep peace in their declaration Ten Benefits of the WTO trading system (WTO 2008a). This thesis is a critical study of this peace claim within the frames of both peace- and development studies. The main argument of the thesis is that the peace claim of WTO is exaggerated. When adopting peace studies own definitions of peace and view it together with WTO’s narrow peace definition, the peace claim of WTO is up for debate. Current globalization and trade processes, conducted in the realm of neoliberal policies, causes marginalization and deprivation for poor countries and poor people. What development studies labels as deprivation and marginalization are within peace studies labeled structural violence. When structural violence is present there cannot be peace. It is the main argument of this paper that WTO and the international trade system inflict structural violence.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/2395
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_2145
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2009 The Author(s)
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3901nor
dc.subjectpeace human securityen
dc.subjectdevelopmenten
dc.subjectinternational tradeen
dc.subjectglobalizationen
dc.subjecthuman securityen
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240en
dc.titleDoes the international trade-system help promote peace? : a critical study of WTO's first benefit within the theoretical frames of peace- and development studiesen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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