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As Panama and Iraq were meant to demonstrate US military dominance, the
establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994-5, was meant to
illustrate Washington’s economic outlook in this new world order.
Though unprecedented in their scale and ferocity, the anti-WTO protests in
Seattle in 1999 seemed like a desperate attempt at reversing the alarming
trend in the world’s economic affairs. Though successful in demonstrating the
power of civil society at work, the protests have failed to produce any real,
lasting outcomes. In the US/Western-centered definition of globalization,
smaller countries had little bargaining power.