Expert Knowledge in Global Trade

Erin Norma Hannah is Associate Professor at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.Silke Trommer is University Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development and World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. James Scott is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, UK.

• Part 1. The language of expert knowledge: the power of discourse, metaphors, and myth-making 1. Talking trade: common sense knowledge in the multilateral trade regime RORDEN WILKINSON 2. The specter of Smooth-Hawley and the global trading system: sustaining free trade through the crisis GABRIEL SILES-BRÜGGE 3. Trade policy communities, expert language, and the dehumanization of world trade SILKE TROMMER Part 2. The agency of expert knowledge: the power of critical technicians, embedded NGOs, and organic intellectuals 4. Expertise through experience: inequality and legitimacy in the juridification of international trade disputing JOSEPH CONTI 5.Numbers: the role of computable general equilibrium modeling in legitimizing trade policy CLIVE GEORGE 6. The double movement of law and expertise ANDREW LANG Part 3. The substance of expert knowledge: the power of law and econometrics in knowledge production 7. Symbolic power and social critique in the making of Oxfam’s trade policy research MATTHEW EAGLETON-PIERCE 8. Ratcheting up accountability? Embedded NGOs in the multilateral trade system ERIN HANNAH 9. Southern intellectual leadership in the construction of global trade knowledge JAMES SCOTT Part 4. Conclusion Erin Hannah, James Scott and Silke Trommer

'Expert Knowledge in Global Trade brings together a first-rate group of scholars whose analysis provides valuable insights into the ways in which the ideas of ‘experts’ serve powerful interests and shape outcomes in the global trade regime.' - Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo, Canada'These thought-provoking and diverse essays expose the explicit and subtle ways in which experts have shaped international trade policies to legitimize prevailing orthodoxies and, lately, to challenge them. This excellent volume is a significant contribution to scholarship on the role of ideas, from the commonsensical to the highly technical, in global political economy.' - JP Singh, George Mason University, USA‘Fresh, original, engaging – this new contribution to the literature on trade governance is genuinely welcome and exciting. The chapters are of the highest quality, written by impressively experienced and knowledgeable authors who really know their stuff. This book will fully deserve the wide attention it will inevitably command.’ – Nicola Phillips, Professor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield, UK