Moving beyond opposition: Constructing tangible alternatives to the corporate investment consensus in regional and global institutions

With the crisis of 2008 the dangers of a deregulatory approach to economic governance became clearer to policy-makers. Yet despite this many states and institutions continue to put deregulation at the centre of their vision for global investment policy. Recent developments, such as the public debate over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), have however given greater visibility to the opposition to corporate-focused globalisation.