期刊名称：The Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy
印刷版ISSN：1306-1542
出版年度：2008
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：97-134
出版社：Ankara
摘要：Although there is no shortage of scholarly literature on corporate power
in world politics, surprisingly little attention has been given to the World
Economic Forum (WEF).1 While neo-Gramscian scholars often make
reference to the WEF as the most comprehensive “planning body” of an
emergent transnational capitalist class, they have yet to subject its
specific practices to detailed analysis (van der Pijl, 1998:132-5; Rupert,
2005:222-7). Interestingly, the most elaborate study of the WEF’s power
has focused on its limits. More specifically, Jean-Christophe Graz
(2003:326) has argued that if the exclusive WEF meetings in Davos are to
result in “more than mere managerial outcomes”, then an engagement
with “the more formal processes of political institutionalization and the
role of the state” is required. However, the necessity of such engagement
points to the limits of the WEF’s power - partly because the visibility of
the informal influence accompanying it will provoke reactions from social
forces excluded from the WEF, and partly because attempts to
incorporate broader elements of society in a wider bloc of social forces
will undermine its collective will.
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