Political Sociology
Introduction
It is argued that the Battle of Seattle is very much fascinating in a number of ways, one most common one would be that the host city, Seattle, was famously known for being politically liberal but during the third World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference that was held in Washington Seattle, the conference was met up by a series of protesters that argued for their grievances against Neoliberal globalisation and the institutions that govern it (Lichbach, Almeida: 2002). The WTO was meeting to discuss various trading rules for the global market but with that it was overshadowed by massive street protest with the coalition of environmental, students, labour, economic justice, religious and other activists that marched against the WTO meeting that was taking place and the demonstration displayed were people sitting, marching, and blocking various intersections, that will prevent the delegates to getting to the conference venue, but only a small number of protesters looted and vandalised corporate and financial targets (Lichbach, Almeida: 2002) this protest was marked as a major resurgence in the United States protests movements and was seen as the second phase of the Anti-Globalisation movement in America.
This essay will be looking into critically outlining the Battle of Seattle, firstly I will look into the WTO and its policies and how they affect the political sphere by assessing the grievance’s outlined by the protesters against the World Trade Organisation and then we will be looking into the strategies used by the protesters and how they fit into the Global civil Society by looking if they serve the global society and if it is a globalisation movement and if it did impact on the conference and beyond.
Body
The world trade organisation was founded as an extension to the General agreement on tariffs and trade to provide framework for institutional conduct on trade negotiations amongst a number of trading nations and also ratifies in
It is argued that the Battle of Seattle is very much fascinating in a number of ways, one most common one would be that the host city, Seattle, was famously known for being politically liberal but during the third World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference that was held in Washington Seattle, the conference was met up by a series of protesters that argued for their grievances against Neoliberal globalisation and the institutions that govern it (Lichbach, Almeida: 2002). The WTO was meeting to discuss various trading rules for the global market but with that it was overshadowed by massive street protest with the coalition of environmental, students, labour, economic justice, religious and other activists that marched against the WTO meeting that was taking place and the demonstration displayed were people sitting, marching, and blocking various intersections, that will prevent the delegates to getting to the conference venue, but only a small number of protesters looted and vandalised corporate and financial targets (Lichbach, Almeida: 2002) this protest was marked as a major resurgence in the United States protests movements and was seen as the second phase of the Anti-Globalisation movement in America.
This essay will be looking into critically outlining the Battle of Seattle, firstly I will look into the WTO and its policies and how they affect the political sphere by assessing the grievance’s outlined by the protesters against the World Trade Organisation and then we will be looking into the strategies used by the protesters and how they fit into the Global civil Society by looking if they serve the global society and if it is a globalisation movement and if it did impact on the conference and beyond.
Body
The world trade organisation was founded as an extension to the General agreement on tariffs and trade to provide framework for institutional conduct on trade negotiations amongst a number of trading nations and also ratifies in